Showing posts with label French wars (other). Show all posts
Showing posts with label French wars (other). Show all posts
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

The “Quasi-War”: The only war between France and the United States

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“There shall be a firm inviolable and universal peace , and a true and sincere friendship between His Britannick Majesty , his heirs and suc...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Piracy played a role, early in the “Second” Hundred Years’ War

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“When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village [Hannibal, Missouri] on the west bank of the Missis...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Great naval conflicts: From the Seven Years’ War to the Napoleonic Wars

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Many pirate movies take place in this general time period, and so do many history movies I grew up on pirate movies like “Treasure Island,” ...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Why World War II continues to fascinate so many

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World War II has been depicted in countless books , documentaries , and Hollywood movies . Some of these movies are basically action films o...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

U-boats in the Great War: The other “Battle of the Atlantic”

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German U-boats were once the terror of the high seas, and this was true during both world wars. In the  First World War , this campaign had ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Top secret: The role of spying and code-cracking in the World Wars

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In the 1970s, a British television network made a series called  “The World at War,”  possibly the most comprehensive television history ev...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Air power in the World Wars: From “expensive toy” to a serious weapon

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“There are a lot of people who say that bombing can never win a war. Well, my answer to that is that it has never been tried yet, and we sha...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia led to his downfall

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“From the day of exchanging the ratification of the present treaties, there shall be perfect peace and amity between his majesty the empero...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

A review of the “BBC History of World War II”

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Note: This is a collection of several BBC documentaries about World War II. That is to say, it is not a unified history like  “The World at ...
Monday, November 27, 2023

A review of the BBC’s “The Crusades”

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The  Crusades  are one of the most infamous episodes in all of  medieval history . More than 700 years later, they are still extremely contr...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

A review of “Lafayette: The Lost Hero” (PBS)

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“If War should break out between France and Great Britain, during the continuance of the present War between the United States and England...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

A review of “The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross” (History Channel)

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To say that the relationship between  Islam  and  the West  is sometimes troubled would be something of an understatement. Since the  rise...