This series has three easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Robert Chooses the Battlefield.IntroductionAfter the submission of
The Cromwell Curse
Today's installment concludes Cromwell's Ireland Campaign,our selection from Oliver Cromwell by Frederic Harrison published in 1888.If you have
The Wexford Massacre
In the view of the Commonwealth government, the mass was by law a crime, Catholic priests were legally outlaws, and all who resisted the Parliament
The Drogheda Massacre
The lurid light of this great crime burns still after centuries across the history of England and of Ireland.Continuing Cromwell's Ireland
Cromwell’s Ireland Campaign
This series has four easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: War of Protestant Versus Catholic.IntroductionThe brutality of
Officers’ Reports
Today's installment concludes Braddock's Defeat, with two short pieces from George Washington and Captain De Contrecoeur. For works benefiting from
British Army Routs
These, making the best of their way off, were joined beyond the other ford by Gage, who had rallied some eighty men; and this was all that remained of
British Solders Buckle Under Fire
The officers sought to collect their men together and lead them on in platoons. Nothing could avail.Continuing Braddock's Defeat,with a selection
French and Indians Open Fire
The French -- some of whom, according to Garneau, were mounted -- held the center of the semicircular disposition so instantly assumed; and a