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The brief reign of Henry at Wawel Castle in Poland was marked by a clash of civilizations between the Polish and the French. The young king and his followers had been astonished by several Polish practices and disappointed by the rural poverty and harsh climate of the country. The Polish, on the other hand, wondered if all Frenchmen have been as concerned with...
Till 1747, the British lacked a clear margin of naval superiority, and the French fleet in Brest retained the strategic initiative simply because the port could not be blockaded properly. In contrast to in 1715, when it had been neutral, France was at war with Britain and planned to help the Jacobites. However, at Valmy, the Revolutionary French have been able to field...
On November 2nd, following, the Prince presided at a fantastic banquet offered in London to the officers and males of the Honourable Artillery Firm and the City Imperial Volunteers. Colonel Mackinnon of the latter force sat on the appropriate of the Royal chairman and the Lord Mayor on the left. A tiny later, on February 9th, a further contingent of Yeomanry, below Colonel...
The new king decided not to travel to Germany for his father’s funeral, which far from bringing criticism led to praise from the English who thought of it proof of his fondness for England. George Frideric Handel was commissioned to write 4 new anthems for the coronation, including Zadok the Priest. Through the War of the Austrian Succession, George participated at the Battle...
It was incredibly strange that a young gentleman who had under no circumstances been left to his own guidance for 5 consecutive minutes, ought to be incapable at final of governing himself but so it was with Tom. It was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination had been strangled in his cradle, really should be nonetheless inconvenienced by its ghost in...
The poems were almost certainly written over a period of many years. By and significant, orthodox Stratfordians—a group that includes the vast majority of historians and English professors with an interest in Shakespeare—dismiss Oxford’s champions as wishful thinkers who ignore or misread historical evidence. It’s organic, they say, that we yearn for traces of our most revered writer—a signed appreciate sonnet on parchment,...
Writing for the Daily Express, Christopher Wilson predicted that the new monarch would “make sure the Church of England remains a premier league religion with the other individuals kept down a rung on the ladder”. However, in a speech last week, Charles returned to a extra conventional tone when he referred to the sovereign’s connection with the Church of England and named it...
