#Napoleonic

Two days ago, you may recall, one of those rabbit hole segues occurred on Napoleonic Twitter, where @latelordchatham, @ZwhiteHistory and @aquestingvole started everyone discussing, with various levels of seriousness, Wellington
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How is Mario, a clearly Italian man ruled my Princess Peach? The Mushroom Kingdom is in the Holy Roman Empire an explainer. (1/13) The ancient Roman empire had plumbing as
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ThreadIt's bizarre to realize that as a layman, I know more about the world than Chris Wallace @FoxNewsSunday.Watch how Wallace asks a series of totally uninformed questions with no core
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In defence of George III: The greatest King to ascend the British throne - denied his legacy by American revision and pop culture.Thought I'd make this thread after seeing many
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In almost 5 years of detecting, I’ve only ever found 7 complete rings. If I were to detect parks & beaches then my chances of finding rings would most likely
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#OTD in 1863, some 24,000 Yankees in George Thomas’s army stamped their feet in the afternoon chill, gazing across an open field toward this hill, Orchard Knob. They were about
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I had a long talk with my Intro to IR students about Russia.Was it because of current events? Partially. But it was mostly because, when it comes to studying international
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1 During his budget speech Grant Robertson quoted William Blake, & called NZ a 'green & pleasant land'. Robertson & his supporters noted that Peter Fraser used the same quote
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I think it is an appropriate time for me to recover some Schmitt reading in these ‘Partisan’ times.1/n This book is a compilation of some lectures Schmitt gave in the
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William Brown (1777-1857): Irish-born Argentine admiral- Regarded as one of Argentina's national heroes for his victories in Independence War, Cisplatine War and at Río de la Plata- Creator/first admiral of
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An obfuscation campaign is currently underway to give intellectual cover to assorted foreign supported regime change agents. In this thread I will try to explain why these toolkit creating agents
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I'm an Afrikaner, of the Boer variety. Meaning my forefathers were the Afrikaners that took on the Great Trek in oxwagons from the cape, died at Dingaanstat, made a Vow
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It’s been one of those days and folks could use a break from it allSo how about a story of absolute badassery that has something for everyoneIt is from one
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1. Why we call spies "Ninth Rate" and how we are all helping to "Pay it Forward" by taking on the role of the Repeating Frigate (Shown: French frigate Lutine
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Happy Frivolous Filing Thursday, y'all!As we hit this holiday weekend homestretch, I thought it might be fun to talk about @LafayetteTravel - a city which bills itself as "The Happiest
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One of my biggest pet peeves: When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps. A English possessions in 1154 vs the 1st round of the presidential election+ Where
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