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THE BARBARY PIRATES
The corsairs’ reign lasted into the 19th cen
Violent protest is nothing new for the French. It’s part of the nation’s eternal quest for Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA 12-15 SEPTEMBER 1814
When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers
“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...
No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from ...
In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc
