18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Re: Responses to luzula from last post

[regshoe]

Hmm, possibly! Forbes is usually pretty scrupulous about his sources (he'll compare different accounts of the same event, note contradictions and gaps and try to figure out the truth, and so on), and all the Really Truly stuff could come from that attitude of wanting to be very clear about accuracy—but I agree it's slightly doubtful.