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  • The first trans-Atlantic hero? General James Wolfe and British North America

      Article
    Early on the morning of 8 June 1758, British frigates unleashed their broadsides upon French shore defences at Gabarus Bay, on the foggy and surf-lashed island of Cape Breton. Under cover of the warships' guns, a motley flotilla of craft headed towards the land. Propelled by straining Royal Navy oarsmen,...
    The first trans-Atlantic hero? General James Wolfe and British North America

  • Joseph Priestley's American Dream

      Historian article
    Joseph Priestley ended his days in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. This is one of the most delightful spots in the eastern United States. It is situated at the confluence of the North Western and North Eastern branches of the Susquehanna, one of the great rivers of North America, which winds its way...
    Joseph Priestley's American Dream

  • 'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes

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    Notwithstanding the tribal hatred recently shown for each other by a handful of English and Turkish football fanatics, nobody who has travelled in Turkey or taken a holiday in that country can have failed to notice the courtesy and generosity with which visitors are invariably treated. Indeed, one of the...
    'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes