This not very fortunate man was born in 1773, some sixteen years before the beginnings of the French Revolution. He was a descendent of Louis…
Category: French History
The ‘Glorious Revolution’ in England and Scotland
In most of the recorded history of the British Isles there have only been three ‘civil wars’: the first, known as the ‘Wars of the Roses’…
The SECOND Reich
We assume our studious blogwatchers know all that is to be known about the Third Reich, because it was notorious, racist, and the direct cause of half a…
The Bourbon Dynasty
This is essential reading for any serious student of world history; the Bourbon family and its influences have been popping in and out of recorded history…
The Cherokee
In the story of the Cherokee nation can be found the finest and saddest elements of the early history of the United States of America….
Shakespeare’s ‘Scottish Play’ and bad luck
Macbeth is William Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, written between 1603 and 1607. The play contains many of the Bard’s most famous and usually ill-quoted lines, such as “Bubble, bubble”…
The Final Solution
Researchers have tried to find cogent reasons for Hitler’s pathological hatred of the Jews. Nothing in his childhood in Austria happened which might have sown the…
The hornet John Wilkes
It is difficult correctly to describe John Wilkes in an unprejudiced manner. Personally, he was a stranger to cleanliness, he was fearfully ugly, he had a scurrilous and…
The beginnings of the Dominion of Canada
Canada is the second largest country in the world, even if large masses of it are covered in ice. We all know that the cultivated or potentially…
The (disastrous) Peace of Amiens
The months of February and March, 1802 encouraged a fairly peaceful interlude in the Napoleonic Wars between France and (principally) Britain. The British people were sick to…