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...Nowadays they are on the same side, sharing a revulsion for both Napoleon and the Jacobins — reaction and revolution....
...But she also quotes from Edmund Burke’s speech for the impeachment of Warren Hastings, Britain’s first governor-general of Bengal, India....
...There’s a probably apocryphal saying that is attributed to Napoleon: “To understand the man, you have to know what was happening in the world when he was 20.”...
...Those new actor/artistic-directors signal a shift, as does the comedian Kathy Burke taking Oscar Wilde into the West End. “We know what it’s like to be up onstage,” Burke points out....
...Yet after 1784 and the election of the Younger Pitt, Britain was settled enough to open free trade negotiations with the French, and strong enough ultimately to fight and defeat Napoleon....
...As for Britain’s interactions with the rest of the world, students will learn about wars against Napoleon and Hitler — but very little about the empire....
...Also, as Napoleon realised, escape is almost impossible....
...Much of its membership sauntered out of Burke’s Peerage: the original list includes three dukes, nine earls, six viscounts, three marquises, 14 lords and 38 knights and baronets....
...“The Russians were the adversary who dropped the sword and picked up a club,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace, speaking of field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov’s partisan campaign against Napoleon....
...Mary Conception McCarthy was born in St John’s, Newfoundland, on 27 April, 1900, daughter of Thomas McCarthy, an Irish immigrant who sold supplies to the town’s mighty fishing fleet, and Anne Burke....
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