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Do you have the figure for Australia?
December 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Do you have the figure for Australia?
As so often we can only speculate on the story behind the bald facts, but so many intriguing possibilities…
December 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
As so often we can only speculate on the story behind the bald facts, but so many intriguing possibilities…
Oh yes, that sounds like a sizeable warren all on its own! Wonder why he wasn’t returned with the rest of Junot’s men? Not sure which would have been worse: seven years in British captivity or seven years with the colours including Massena’s invasion of Portugal…
December 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Oh yes, that sounds like a sizeable warren all on its own! Wonder why he wasn’t returned with the rest of Junot’s men? Not sure which would have been worse: seven years in British captivity or seven years with the colours including Massena’s invasion of Portugal…
Nothing wrong with some good rabbit holing!
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Nothing wrong with some good rabbit holing!
Have you read the description of the cricket match in England their England by A G Macdonell (similar vintage and flavour, though the book as a whole is comedy not crime … and the rest of it is rather dated)?
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Have you read the description of the cricket match in England their England by A G Macdonell (similar vintage and flavour, though the book as a whole is comedy not crime … and the rest of it is rather dated)?
More than one book on almost every subject on which he has written - and that’s almost every subject relating to the political, diplomatic or military history of the 18th century and adjacent decades. The real question is whether anyone has ever read them all, or ever will…
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
More than one book on almost every subject on which he has written - and that’s almost every subject relating to the political, diplomatic or military history of the 18th century and adjacent decades. The real question is whether anyone has ever read them all, or ever will…
Halfway through listening to it and thoroughly enjoying it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Halfway through listening to it and thoroughly enjoying it.
Wouldn’t that make him in his mid-fifties at least even if he was carrying the standard in the first year of her reign?
October 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Wouldn’t that make him in his mid-fifties at least even if he was carrying the standard in the first year of her reign?
Better to have reigned and lost, than never to have reigned at all?
October 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Better to have reigned and lost, than never to have reigned at all?
Continuing a tradition that went back centuries
September 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Continuing a tradition that went back centuries
I entirely agree that it’s a very bad idea, and I hope that the world doesn’t go in that direction
September 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I entirely agree that it’s a very bad idea, and I hope that the world doesn’t go in that direction
Surely that is an inevitable consequence if the US proves an unreliable ally - or no ally at all - in the medium term? How else to deter an attack (not necessarily one from a super power)?
September 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Surely that is an inevitable consequence if the US proves an unreliable ally - or no ally at all - in the medium term? How else to deter an attack (not necessarily one from a super power)?
Not an instinctive admirer of military men…
September 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Not an instinctive admirer of military men…
Congratulations Steve, it’s a fine achievement
September 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Congratulations Steve, it’s a fine achievement
You’re probably right, though he is such good copy, and has so many other strings to his bow that he might bring as much attention to the Whigs as he absorbs, at least among non-specialists.
August 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
You’re probably right, though he is such good copy, and has so many other strings to his bow that he might bring as much attention to the Whigs as he absorbs, at least among non-specialists.
1st, 2nd or 3rd? Though a fair call for any of them…
August 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
1st, 2nd or 3rd? Though a fair call for any of them…
Would his reputation as a politician (and perhaps in other respects) have stood higher if he had died earlier, perhaps in the late 1790s?
August 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Would his reputation as a politician (and perhaps in other respects) have stood higher if he had died earlier, perhaps in the late 1790s?
Surely more complicated than simple anti-French - he was a great admirer of Napoleon - but had his favourites and unbeloveds amongst the marshals and he was a passionate man, almost never moderate in his opinions.
August 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Surely more complicated than simple anti-French - he was a great admirer of Napoleon - but had his favourites and unbeloveds amongst the marshals and he was a passionate man, almost never moderate in his opinions.
A very nice find!
June 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A very nice find!