Auteur/autrice : John Tarttelin
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British Atrocities – 2
The portholes of the vessel had all been sealed and breathing holes covered in iron bars ran the length of the ship. It was freezing in winter and like an airless oven in summer. Frostbite and suffocation claimed the lives of the prisoners depending upon the season. Captain Coffin remarked that: ‘I can safely aver,…
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British Atrocities – 1
A button and two passenger jets. What have they to do with Napoleonic history? We shall now see… On ‘Nine Eleven’ 2001, two planes seized by Islamic terrorists from Al-Qaeda crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. It was one of the greatest atrocities of modern times and many people can recall…
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Dan Snow – Under the Weather
John Tarttelin answers to Dan Snow, his March 14th 2015 article for the Daily Telegraph : « The French should end their love affair with Napoleon – he was an utterly brutal and callous dictator »…