Frederick the Great and Other 18th-C Characters, Discussion Post 31

[cahn]

And in this post:

-luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!

-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!

-mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War

(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)

-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D

Comments

Re: The '45: from Derby to Culloden and after

[felis]

Echoing Cahn re: the prisoner details and the background on that. Also, given that I basically knew nothing about the Jacobites beyond some disconnected names and the things I'd picked up here (let alone some historical context), this was definitely an interesting read!

Re: The '45: from Derby to Culloden and after

[luzula]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! : D