Captain John Grant Tod, Texas Sailor in the Heart of Sin City Mexico, 1848
Born in 1808 near Lexington, Kentucky, John Grant Tod, the youngest of nine children born to pious immigrants from Scotland, left home at seventeen.
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Cold War’s End: How Did Winds of Change Shape Pop Culture?
The Cold War in film, literature, and music from the late 1980s and early 1990s is a valuable remembrance of a world in transition and the public’s perceptions of those changes.
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Albert-Jean Michel de Rocca and the Most Dangerous Road in Napoleonic Spain
Most memoirs by French officers who took part in the Napoleonic occupation of Spain lauded their victories and achievements on the battlefield with the exception of Albert-Jean Michel de Rocca (1788-1818), a lieutenant who served in the French Army until 1810 when he was injured and forced to hobble back to France on the most dangerous stretch of road in the war.
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King Sverre of Norway: The Birkebeiner Alliance and Rise to Power, 1177-1184
Around the year 1175, when Sverre Sigurdsson learned he was the son of King Sigurd (II) Munn, he left the Faroes where he was raised and returned to the land of his birth.
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Sverre Sigurdsson (1151-1202): The Brothers’ Civil War and Faroese Boy Destined to be Norway’s King
Sometime after his victory at the Battle of Kalvskinnet in 1179, near Trondheim, Norway, King Sverre Sigurdsson (1151-1202), in the second year of his tenuous reign, beckoned an Icelandic abbot named Karl Jonssen, of the Tingeyre (Þingeyri) monastery, in the windswept coast of northwest Iceland, to chronicle his life and ensure his story would prevail through the ages.
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