000 to £400,000) each time he faced a contested election, much of it on paying for out-voters to attend, since his local popularity with voters slumped towards the end of the century, due to his strident support of war with France....
Immerwahr, Raymond. «"Romantic" and its Cognates in England, Germany, and France before 1790», en «Romantic» and its Cognates. The European History of a Word, ed. Hans Eichner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972, pags. 17-97....
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 ofTyrconnell. They engage the English in the west of Ulster while O’Neill,...
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 ...
Weaving in the textures of Paris, the excitement of a city just coming out of war, the uncertainty of those times was great fun. If you would like an early copy to read so you can post a review once it goes up on sale, email me at Sd@sd-writer.com. The book should be on sale...
The south facing facade of the home has five bays and a central entrance trimmed with flat pilasters and a semicircular fanlight above the door. 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 ...
The south facing facade of the home has five bays and a central entrance trimmed with flat pilasters and a semicircular fanlight above the door. 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 ...
The trend through the 10th century was that castles were mechanisms and signs of control and power in France. In England, however, if you were of the wealthy nobility you wanted to demonstrate that by living within a complex of halls with an associated church or chapels. All of that woul...
adopted in their long struggle against Napoleonic France, kindled new conflicts with America, which culminated in the War of 1812, popular resentment against English immigrants intensified. In such states with large German, French, and Celtic communities as Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and the...
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...