Today's installment concludes The Gunpowder Plot,our selection from What the Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel R. Gardiner published in 1897.If you
Fawkes Reveals the Plan
First they hired the house at Westminster, of one Ferres, and having his house they sought then to make a mine under the Upper House of
King Orders Fawkes to be Tortured
If he will not otherwise confess," the King had ended by saying, "the gentler tortures are to be first used unto him.”Continuing The Gunpowder
Fawkes Collects the Explosives
Though Fawkes kept silence as to the mine, he did not keep silence on the desperate character of the work on which he had been engaged.Continuing
The Gunpowder Plot
This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Guy Fawkes’ Confession.IntroductionIf successful, this plot would have
Bohemia Revolts
There were tumults, uprisings, and on May 23, 1618, a party of angry citizens of Prague burst into the council hall, seized Slavata and Martinitz, the
The Thirty Years War
This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Focus on Prague.IntroductionThe war combined a great struggle between