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: Write-up of "The Jacobites", by Daniel Szechi (2019)

[cahn]

So, like I was saying to luzula, I knew who the Jacobins were before salon (but not the Jacobites whom I hadn't really heard of except for luzula/salon mentioning them) and lol, when she brought them up this time I was like... OK, but they couldn't be those Jacobins because Reign of Terror != Irish supporters of the Stuarts?? (Hilariously, I even did a google search before asking who they were, which of course came up with, well, Jacobins, and I discarded it because it obviously couldn't be them :) )

Re: Write-up of "The Jacobites", by Daniel Szechi (2019)

[mildred_of_midgard]

I admit I was surprised you didn't know who the Jacobins were, but I figured it had just been a long time and you had forgotten! This makes sense, yes. And yeah, the part that awed me was the Stuart supporters -> Reign of Terror supporters too!