Incas
Inca Atahualpa captured / theinfounderground.com The Incas were pre-Columbian (which means before the arrival of Christopher Columbus on American shores) native people of western South America. This is what the text books say, [...]
The Sun King
The Sun King / biography.com Louis the Fourteenth (XIV) was the King of France for seventy-two years, from 1643 to 1715. He is the great monarch who still startles lighter-minded history students by [...]
The Reichstag
What was left after the Reichstag Fire / classwarfareexists.com This is, or rather was the Imperial Parliament of Germany. Here in Berlin the legislature of the German Second Empire and Weimar Republic was [...]
Another Voice: by Dean Swift
Yesterday March 25 regional elections took place in two autonomous communities in Spain – Andalucía and Asturias. The results were more or less what were expected, in that the Andalusians voted slightly more for the [...]
The fate of three great nautical ladies
Three enormous ocean liners, built well before the Second War when trans-Atlantic travel was best made by sea, not by air, suffered ends which none of them deserved. They were Lusitania, Queen Elizabeth and Queen [...]
French kings after the Revolution
Careless students of history may forget that the monarchy of France did not end with the execution of Louis XVI, last King of France before the Revolution (q.v.). There were three more to reign before [...]
A second message from Dean Swift
I am greatly indebted to Dr. M, an acquaintance, for using his eagle eye to spot a superfluous ‘of’’ in a line occurring in one of my posts. I suspect it was an impertinent and [...]
What happened to Napoleon’s Marshals?
Murat shot (by the French) after Waterloo / executedtoday.com To reach the rank of Marshal in the French army before the Revolution (q.v.) was the highest achievement for a soldier. After the Revolution [...]
The Normandy Landings & the Invasion
British and Commonwealth troops at Gold beach / paranormalknowledge.com Until Mr Spielberg thought about a soldier with 3 dead brothers called Ryan there had been a number of films made about the Allied [...]
What was the ‘Roman Question’?
It is something studious people have been asking for centuries: what relation does the city of Rome (for one thousand four hundred years in the ‘temporal’ possession of the Catholic Pope) have with any movement [...]
Two sad, unlucky men: Alfonso XIII & the Duc d’Enghien
The execution of the Duke / albert-fagioli.blogg.org Alfonso was born in 1896 and was King of Spain from that day, until 1933. His father, XII of that name, had died before the [...]
The truth about Mayerling?
Contemporary photographs of the victims at Mayerling / en.wikipedia.org Emperor Franz-Joseph of Austria/Hungary must have had tremendous self-discipline: his brother Maximilian was invited to become King of Mexico, accepted, and was later shot [...]
Two World War II soldiers: Alexander & Montgomery
Many generals co-operate or fight against each other, not always on opposing sides. Almost all the Second War generals and field marshals on both the Axis side or in the Allies actually knew each other, [...]
Two (du Plessis) Richelieus
Armand.Emmanuel du Plessis / retratosdelahistoria.blogspot.com Cardinal Richelieu has not been treated kindly by journalists, novelists or movie-makers. I suppose it is an honour to have been played on the screen by, in alphabetical [...]
Andorra & Luxembourg
The first is a co-Principality, and the second a Grand Duchy. Both are tiny, but significant in questions of tourism and politics. Andorra lies between France and Spain, a beautiful landscape of hills and valleys [...]
Two important Hungarians – Horthy & Károlyi
Miklós Horthy / kecel.jobbik.hu Miklós Horthy de Nagybanya was born in 1868. He was destined to become an Admiral, and Regent while King Charles of Hungary was in exile. He was a member [...]
War Crimes
This subject arouses all kinds of passions in men’s hearts. Historians are right when they say that subjecting leaders defeated in a war or wars to a tribunal accusing them of war crimes is likely [...]
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