by David West | Aug 24, 2025 | News
I have recently given a friend of mine some investment advice. He has had a very poor record of investment in the past, so much so that he thought his investment had, in some mysterious way, brought about the collapse of the companies he had invested in. Of course...
by David West | Aug 23, 2025 | News
Being British I am perhaps drawn to historical events in which we take pride, Waterloo, Trafalgar, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, etc. So for a change here’s one we can be thoroughly ashamed of. Wikipedia tells me that on the 23rd of August, 1839, Britain seized...
by David West | Aug 22, 2025 | News
The Fettmilch Uprising took place in Frankfurt on the 22nd of August, 1614, a plundering of Frankfurt’s Jewish quarter, the Judengasse. It was the inspiration for Called to Account, the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. The Fettmilch Uprising, also...
by David West | Aug 21, 2025 | News
On the 21st of August, 1808, British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeated French forces commanded by Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro in Portugal. It was the second victory of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance in the...
by David West | Aug 20, 2025 | News
On the 20th of August, 1940, Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded in Mexico City when Ramón Mercader attacked him with an ice axe. Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on the 7th of November, 1879, in Yanovka, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), was a...
by David West | Aug 19, 2025 | News
On the 19th of August, 1812, the American frigate USS Constitution defeated HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia. The War of 1812, often referred to as America’s “second war of independence,” was a military conflict fought between the United...
