Tag: Charles james Fox
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Prime Minister Shelburne, Disliked, Not Trusted, Therefore Doomed
Shelburne was intelligent, able, wise and had great political knowledge, but he was detached from both the Whigs and Tories…that he had earned the incurable dislike and distrust of everyone important. His nickname was ‘Malagrida’ – after a notorious Portuguese Jesuit conspirator. So, not good then, but should have been.…
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8 Facts About American Independence We Never Learned
At primary school in Scotland in 1976 our teacher introduced us to the American Bicentennial: 200 years since the American Declaration of Independence. It’s only now, aged 60, that I’m correcting my pre-teen comprehension of that momentous event. Read this post, you’ll learn stuff you never knew.