History, U.S. History, World history, prehistory, geological history, Archaeology, Irish history, and history of many sorts. Much history can be sorted out by visiting our history timeline blogs. This also seems like place for essays on culture.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Breoghan: The Legendary Celtic King of Irish and Galician Mythology
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
The King Arthur Conspiracy
History With RCS: You could make an interesting exploration from here.
Why not begin with King Arthur?
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Revolting
History With RCS: Bonaparte had a good appreciation of the Republicanism of his day.
Napoleon
Bonaparte, a leading republican of Europe, was willing to become
Emperor of France. Republican France welcomed Napoleon as Emperor! There
may be a lesson or two to be learned from that bit of history.
Napoleon
did bring reforms to Europe in the fields of science, education and in a
variety of cultural areas. Those works of his could be called
republican.
The
legal system called the the Napoleonic Code influenced most of the
West and much of the East. It is extent in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
Napoleon
was a warrior, a leader of armies. Some say he won a war against
Russia. To attack Russia he left home with about a half a million men,
the largest army ever assembled in Europe until that time. He returned
home with about 20,000 men and "the shirt on his back."
He met his Waterloo in a battle against Prussia and GB in which Prussia saved Britain's bacon.
After
Waterloo Great Britain, Spain, Prussia, Russia, Austria and others
joined one another for suppressing liberal movements throughout Europe.
Lessons may begin with questions like:
Why do the histories of many revolutions seem revolting?
Why might a republican be willing to become an Emperor?
Why ought the citizens of a republic be responsible?
Where is your revolution headed?
Friday, March 19, 2021
A Leading Republican
Napoleon Bonaparte, a leading republican of his day, was willing to become Emperor of France. France welcomed him as Emperor. There may be a lesson to be learned from this bit of history.
Napoleon did bring reforms to Europe and beyond in the fields of science, education, and a variety of cultural areas. These works could be called republican.
The legal system called the Napoleonic Code, influenced much of Europe and a significant part of the rest of the World. Napoleonic law is an important part of the law of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
Napoleon was a warrior, a leader of armies. Some have said that he won a war against Russian. To attack Russia, he left home with about a half million men. He returned home with about 20,000 men and "the shirt on his back."
He met his "Waterloo" in a battle against Prussia and Britain. In that battle Prussia "saved Britain's bacon.
After Waterloo, Britain, Spain, Prussia, Austria, Russia, and others joined one another in suppressing liberal movements throughout Europe.
This is a TEST:
~ Why do the histories of so many revolutions seem revolting?
~ Where is your revolution headed?
~ Why might a republican be willing to become an emperor?
~ What is a "loo?"
~ Why ought the citizens of a republic be responsible?