Early Modern and Colonial European and American History. Land and Sea.
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The time has come!
Get on the list for the limited-edition physical print run of PORTALS, Feigned Flight Magazine - Issue 1!
You'll have 9 days to get it, have it shipped to you by Christmas, and then its gone forever!
Link: kickstarter.com/projects/mem…
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Napoleon Bonaparte, who was 26 and an artillery officer at the time orders his gunners to give counter revolutionaries advancing through the streets of Paris a "whiff of grapeshot."
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A French Double Barrel Breech Loading Pinfire Shotgun dated circa 1866 on display at the MET
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“I have lost the greatest, the wisest, and the most generous of my enemies.”
King Louis XIV of France upon learning of the death of Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar.
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General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
In 1795, the French army found itself pinned down by the Austrians.
Dumas rallied 30 dragoons and charged the bridge alone. Injured, Dumas held the line until reinforcements arrived.
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The greatest officer in the history of the Royal Navy, the bane of the high seas, referred to as the devil by the French navy, referred to as "Britannia's God of War".
This is the story of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, England's naval hero.
A thread 🧵
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“Whereas some states possessed an army, the Prussian army possessed a state”
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Painting by French army officer, politician, painter and lithographer Louis-François Lejeune depicting the 1808-1809 Siege of Zaragoza
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237 years ago today, George Washington took office to become the first president of the United States of America
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Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!
In Charlestown, Massachusetts during the first stage of the American Revolution on June 17th 1775, the British led an assault on Bunker Hill.
The United Colonies would not go down without a fight.
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In around the year 1060, in modern day Belgium in the county of Flanders, one of the greatest knights in history was born.
One who would grow up to be a hero of the first crusade, a hero of Christendom, a chivalric warrior unlike any other. This is the story of Godfrey of Bouillon. 🧵
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Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!
This Friday will be my next thread, covering the famous battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
The Colonies led by William Prescott vs the British led by William Howe!
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Do not worry! I plan on making threads of many great people! So far my list includes
Gustavus Adolphus
George Washington
Horatio Nelson
Frederick the Great
Marquis de Lafayette
General Cornwallis
Napoleon
And many many more!
