*facepalm* (which I wrote before your comment to that effect)
That's because it's like I said in that comment, it's the correct response to reading about French diplomacy! In fact, when I was rereading this before posting it last night, I made a mental note to add a facepalm in that exact spot, then read a bit further and realized I had already put a facepalm there. So I put in the Chevalier d'Eon instead. :D
she ended up with a major rebellion, the Pugachev rebellion, in 1773, in which a Cossack was pretending to be her husband Peter III and claiming to be tsar Whaaat.
Oh, you don't know about the Pugachev rebellion! Great, then I will do a write-up. I can't promise I'll post it this weekend, but I'm starting to flip through my books and compose it in my head.
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Re: 1764-1772 Foreign policy: Sweden: Gustav's coup (1772)
Date: 2024-01-20 03:33 pm (UTC)That's because it's like I said in that comment, it's the correct response to reading about French diplomacy! In fact, when I was rereading this before posting it last night, I made a mental note to add a facepalm in that exact spot, then read a bit further and realized I had already put a facepalm there. So I put in the Chevalier d'Eon instead. :D
she ended up with a major rebellion, the Pugachev rebellion, in 1773, in which a Cossack was pretending to be her husband Peter III and claiming to be tsar
Whaaat.
Oh, you don't know about the Pugachev rebellion! Great, then I will do a write-up. I can't promise I'll post it this weekend, but I'm starting to flip through my books and compose it in my head.