Following the disastrous Seven Years’ War, France agreed to quit Canada and leave it to the British, which was not at all what the local tribesmen wanted.

Leopold Mozart was eager to win the hearts of the English, and thought he knew just the way to do it.

Scotsman Samuel Greig so impressed his superiors at the Admiralty in London that he was sent as an adviser to the Russian Imperial Navy.

A literary man tries to trick Samuel Johnson into an honest opinion, which was neither necessary nor very rewarding.

Edward Stone wondered if the willow tree might have more in common with the Peruvian cinchona tree than just its damp habitat.