by David West | Dec 2, 2024 | News
Having served as an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve, when it comes to battles of 1805, I think of Trafalgar. Yet ashore the battle of the year was Austerlitz. The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was fought on the second of...
by David West | Dec 1, 2024 | News
My post for 25th November concerned Elizabeth of Russia. She sounded quite good back then. But by 1st December 1742 she’d ordered the expulsion of all Jews from Russia. I sought in Called to Account, the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, to explore...
by David West | Nov 30, 2024 | News
By the 30th November 1630, 16,000 inhabitants of Venice had died that month from the plague. This outbreak, part of the Second Pandemic of bubonic plague, devastated northern and central Italy, including Venice, leaving a lasting impact on the city’s population,...
by David West | Nov 29, 2024 | News
On 29th November 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army moved into Manchester and occupied Carlisle. Bonnie Prince Charlie, born Charles Edward Stuart on December 31, 1720, was a charismatic figure who became the symbol of the Jacobite cause to restore the Stuart...
by David West | Nov 28, 2024 | News
Eleanor of Castile died on the 28th of November 1290. After her death, her husband King Edward I, known as Longshanks, commissioned the famous Eleanor Crosses, a series of twelve lavish monuments erected at the places where her funeral cortege rested on its journey to...
