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and early 1590s causes O’Neill to create an alliance of Irish lords, which look to throw off English rule with the help ofPhilip II of Spain. From April 1593, O’Neill orchestrates a proxy war against the English usingHugh Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh, andHugh Roe O’Donnell, Lord of...
Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs, manoeuvring between the major powers of France and Spain. She only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France, and Ireland. By the mid-1580s, England could no longer avoid war with ...
The builder of the house, Micah Wild, was a native of Braintree, MA, and a Revolutionary War veteran. He moved to Salem, MA, in 1790 and he acquired the land to build the house in 1802. In 1806, fellow Revolutionary veteran James Barr and he agreed to lay out a private way or cou...
Rather, he wanted peace to consolidate his position and for France to absorb its conquests in Europe. The British government also wanted to escape from an expensive and unpopular war. The Treaty of Amiens in 1801 was the result. It appeared to put a stop to invasion fears altogether. A ...
It was not an English hotel, but a furnished house to let, with servants and lovely rooms left intact from the era before the Revolution had torn France apart. She had stayed only long enough to wave off her yawning maid and change into a serviceable, sage-green walking dress and ankle ...
Macdougall, ‘“The greattest scheip that ewer saillit in Ingland or France”: James IV's “Great Michael”’, in Macdougall, ed., Scotland and War, AD 79–1918 (Edinburgh, 1991), 36–60. On the calculation of displacement see Ref. 11 (Open in a new window)Google Scholar 1993...
All of that would likely be enclosed within a defensive perimeter possibly combining walls, moats, and berms, but it wouldn't be a stone castle as commonly found in France and beyond. Noble power centers in Anglo-Saxon-era England combined residential, religious, and economic activity. Call ...
and reluctantly increased its involvement in the European Common Market, a policy reflected in the difficult struggle to complete the channel tunnel connecting England with France in 1994. Yet the policy continues to meet strong resistance in Parliament and among the peoples of the British Isles. ...
This did not suit the mid-Victorian ideas of heroism, and in the hierarchical and aristocratic Navy of the day, Nelson's reputation took a distinctly downward turn. It was rescued only by the geopolitical necessities of the 1880s, when Britain, challenged by France, Russia and then Germany,...