Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Modern History’
From ‘Lenin’ (1930), by F.A. Ossendowsky, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
As a last, desperate throw of the dice in the Great War, the Germans detonated an unusual kind of weapon in St Petersburg.
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The great British public leaves a German tourist speechless during a county match at the Oval in London.
Photo by Herbert Rose Barraud (1845-1896), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Stylish batting in cricket is about variety, invention and frankly anything that works, and we have Dr W.G. Grace to thank for it.
By William Hodges (1744-1797), via the British Library and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
The East India Company installed Mir Kasim as Nawab of Bengal, only to find that he had a mind of his own.
By Vasily Vereshchagin, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
It was the opinion of Leo Tolstoy that even Napoleon was never master of his own destiny.
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Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.