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)?

I wonder how many of my Napoleonic friends know this... I just learned that in 2015 Belgium issued a €2.5 commemorative coin to mark the anniversary of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. They wanted it on their €2 coin but France vetoed that idea even after Belgium minted 180,000 of those coins (they

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…

Programme of online talks for the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras.

This may be of interest to Napoleonic people. Our next online talk on 18 November at 7pm UK time. Register your interest by email to: i_j_brewer@msn.com

Maj-Gen (Retd) Rui Moura will tell us about the services of Thomas William Stubbs.

Have a look at our other planned talks.

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?

Better to have reigned and lost, than never to have reigned at all?

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

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…

Congratulations Steve, it’s a fine achievement

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#OTD 8 Aug 1789 Gov. Arthur Philip creates the first police force in Australia. It is made up of 12 trustworthy convicts.

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…

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.

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A very nice find!

And all the misinformation and contradictions - the fog of peace, as it were. Thank you.

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But the troops might have lost their nerve and broken and run, giving the rebels the victory. Can’t take for granted their courage and nerve any more than that of the other side.

Cold War or postwar, though we only use those terms in some contexts.

Wonder what our current era will be called and whether we’re late in an era or early in a new one?

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You don’t get many CVs like that these …

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B-Sides: John Galt’s “Annals of the Parish” - Public Books For 30 or 40 years a book has been lurking on my shelves, a beautiful little Everyman’s Library edition published by Dent and Dutton, undated, with red fake leather binding …

“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”

—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH
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Oh, surely? Unsettling question though…

Published or unpublished?