Showing posts with label French wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French wars. Show all posts
Monday, July 14, 2025

The “French Revolutionary Wars”: A great European cataclysm

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“Do you hear in the fields The howling of those fearsome soldiers? They are coming into your midst To slit the throats of your sons and con...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

The Seven Years’ War was a massive worldwide conflict

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“The free exercise of the roman religion [in Canada] is granted, likewise safe guards to all religious persons, as well as to the Bishop, w...
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, August 15, 2024

The Napoleonic Wars: A series of several coalitions and conflicts

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The Napoleonic Wars lasted for twelve years, with a death toll in the millions … The Napoleonic Wars lasted for twelve years, with a death ...
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 ...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

A review of “Modern Marvels: The Suez Canal” (History Channel)

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Long before the  Panama Canal  was built, the Suez Canal was opened in 1869. This is the same year that America ’s  Transcontinental Railroa...
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...
Monday, November 11, 2019

A review of “Paris 1919: Inside the Peace Talks That Changed the World”

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“[There shall be a] Surrender in good condition by the German armies of the following war material: Five thousand guns (2,500 heavy, and ...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Bedtime stories about Armageddon: The lessons of the Cold War about nuclear weapons

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“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture … ‘ And I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ’ I suppose we all thought that, one w...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Spying during the Cold War was a risky business

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“Bond … JAMES Bond.” In May 1960, an  American   U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Russians over Soviet territory , which caused so...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

A review of “The Great War” (1964 BBC series)

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"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely...
Monday, November 9, 2015

A review of CNN's “The Cold War”

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"He who ignores the lessons of history is doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana Soviets' first atomic bomb test, 19...
Friday, June 6, 2014

A review of “The World at War” (World War Two series)

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"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin Nevile Henderson handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we hear...