The Sykes-Picot Agreement
Sir Mark Sykes / syrianhistory.com The Sykes-Picot Agreement (‘Honesty in diplomacy is rare’) In 1916 a secret agreement was signed between Britain and France, each country agreeing to take control of Turkey in [...]
Old posts to create our First Book
Winston Churchill is happy for us Dear Sirs, We must apologize for having removed all previous posts. This is the third time that we have suffered an attack from robots or spammers and [...]
Who said it . . .?
This is another of those brief quizzes designed to keep your mind active. Please tell me who said these things in the form of a Comment. The last ‘Who said it?’ was masterfully won by [...]
The ‘Indian’ Wars
The indian wars Images, dreamlike or real, and the reputation of the Native American have greatly altered in the last forty or fifty years; he was always the treacherous and deadly villain of [...]
The Homestead Act & Strike
This Act was passed in the US government in 1862, at the very height of the ‘Wild West’ era – brave pioneers heading west, ‘Redskins’ whose land it was biting the dust, shootists biting the [...]
The Great Depression
This ten-year horror followed the Wall Street Crash (q.v. 2 days ago), lasting from 1929 to 1939, and might have been longer had not World War 2 interrupted the economic wizards who created it. Since [...]
The Wall Street Crash
Since the end of the immediate post-War depression in US financial markets, occurring in 1922, share prices rose dramatically. Naturally this encouraged a speculative boom and by 1929 the financial history of the US had [...]
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in 1890, of Dutch-American stock. He became a general and the 34th President of the United States. He saw war in a quite different way than another American officer, George [...]
Gustav V of Sweden
Gustav V of Sweden lived from 1858 to 1950, and reigned from 1907, which makes him the longest reigning king in Swedish history. He was a shy man, naturally reserved, disliking any kind of pomp [...]
Who were the Green Mountain Boys?
This wonderful and typically American appellative refers to a prosperous group of ranchers, landowners and speculators whose intention it was to create the US state of Vermont, arising from territory whose ownership was disputed between [...]
Carlism
/ cutand parry.com Carlism was (and is) a purely Spanish political movement of the Right. The name comes from Carlos-María Isidro de Borbón. With the death of his brother the unlamented Fernando VII [...]
The battle of Jutland (Norway)
Artist’s impression of the battle / pubpages.unh.edu This sea battle of the Great War is interesting for two reasons: the first is that Jutland was the first challenge to British naval superiority since [...]
The Republic of Texas & ‘Manifest Destiny’
Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821, the same year as Perú. Plenty of Mexicans had already settled in parts of northern Texas, but not enough to work the land properly, so Mexico offered cheap [...]
The battle of the Marne (September 1914)
The river Marne is a tributary of the Seine, leaving it at a point east of Paris. It was also famed for being the site of the furthest advance of the imperial German army into [...]
The Kadets
In 1905 during the first Russian revolution, Young revolutionaries founded the Kadets, a political party with the official name of ‘Constitutional Democrats’. Mostly young middle-class, they formed the largest party in the first Duma, representing [...]
Alexander Kerensky (supplementary notes)
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES: February Revolution: On February 23, 1917 women in the streets of St. Petersburg filled the streets demanding bread, calling on factory workers to join them. Bolshevik, Menshevik and Socialist revolutionaries were hard at [...]
Alexander Kerensky
Kerensky was born into the Russian educated class in 1881. He became a lawyer specialising in ‘cases for the people’s good’, and became a revolutionary. When St. Petersburg became Petrograd he was a leading member [...]
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