According to Carroll Quigley in his book “Tragedy and Hope” (1966), “John Ruskin spoke to the Oxford undergraduates [1871] as members of the privileged, ruling …
The following is a letter that speculation claimed that Albert Pike wrote to Giuseppe Mazzini regarding a conspiracy involving three world wars that were planned in an attempt …
The Confederate Army was unstoppable – within weeks of winning the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee had won the Second Battle of Bull Run …
On 3 August 1835, somewhere in the City of London, two of Europe’s most famous bankers came to an agreement with the chancellor of the …
In 1805, Napoleon suffered a set-back when his combined Franco-Spanish fleet was defeated at the Battle of Trafalgar. Conquering across Europe, Napoleon invaded Russia in …
New research marking the bicentenary of Luddism – a workers’ uprising which swept through parts of England in 1812 – has thrown into question whether …
William Wilberforce was a member of the British Parliament who converted to Christianity and later became an abolitionist. As a Christian, he sought to reform …
On 3 September 1783, the Peace of Paris was signed and the American War for Independence officially ended. The following excerpt from John Ferling’s Almost …
France entered the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) in 1778, and assisted in the victory of the Americans seeking independence from Britain (realized in the 1783 …
There is not a famous painting of this river crossing on the night of August 29/30, 1776 unlike the crossing of the Delaware before the …
