Russ Emerson | September 7, 2006
Lately, my nightly reading has been a 6-book series, A Naval History of Great Britain: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Written and published in the 1820s, the six volumes are a chronological record of every significant (and perhaps not so significant) action and expedition in which the Royal Navy participated. Gleaned by the […]
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Russ Emerson | April 6, 2006
[This is the second of my 2006 Tartan Day posts. The first can be seen here. It’s probably more interesting than this one.] How, one might be tempted to ask, does a guy without a drop of Scots blood in him (or, if there’s a drop, it’s diluted to the point of requiring measurement in […]
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