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French Revolution
The Glorious First of June
Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.
Sport and Sportsmen
Rebel Rugby
The Nazi-collaborating Vichy government in France paid Rugby League the supreme compliment: they banned it.
French History
Mathieu Martinel and the Fireworks
A firework display in Paris turned to tragedy in the narrow streets of the capital.
based on an account by Charlotte Yonge 1823-1901
Mathieu Martinel and the Drowning Soldier
A young French cavalry soldier took a tremendous risk to rescue a drowning man.
Mathieu Martinel and the Blazing Barracks
The soldier went quite deliberately into a burning room full of gunpowder and ammunition.
Modern History
Jemima Fawr and the Last Invasion of Britain
French revolutionaries in a fleet of four ships attempted to spark a revolution in Britain.