my impression is that FW paid for his when they became vacant, whereas C11 was more like, "The Crown giveth and the Crown taketh away."
haha, wow, a story in which FW isn't the biggest cheapskate
Differing slightly, the accounts agree that Patkul, after a prolonged process of breaking his bones with the wheel, begged for his decapitation (crying "Kopf ab!") and rolled to the block on his own; the following decapitation did however not succeed until after several strikes.
...you know, my days of my being stupendously grateful I don't live in the past are certainly coming to a middle, to misquote Firefly :P
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Re: Great Northern War: Johann Patkul
Date: 2021-11-20 06:35 am (UTC)haha, wow, a story in which FW isn't the biggest cheapskate
Differing slightly, the accounts agree that Patkul, after a prolonged process of breaking his bones with the wheel, begged for his decapitation (crying "Kopf ab!") and rolled to the block on his own; the following decapitation did however not succeed until after several strikes.
...you know, my days of my being stupendously grateful I don't live in the past are certainly coming to a middle, to misquote Firefly :P