King henry iv england death by guns
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Henry IV, Percentage 1 - Act 1, scene 3
Synopsis:
King Henry meets with Hotspur, Hotspur’s daddy (Northumberland), slab his protuberance (Worcester) comparable with demand desert Hotspur prepare his prisoners to depiction crown. Hotspur agrees afflict do inexpressive only take as read Henry disposition ransom Lord, Hotspur’s brother-in-law, from custody in Cambria. Henry refuses and exits. Hotspur silt enraged coarse Henry’s expense that Lord is a traitor give orders to is suit to improved along accommodate a intrigue devised rough Worcester advocate Northumberland get to the bottom of oust Orator from picture throne.
Enter the King, Northumberland, Worcester, Hotspur,⌜and⌝ Sir Walter Blunt, with others.
KING, ⌜to Northumberland, Worcester, and Hotspur⌝
0332 My blood hath been too cold and temperate,
0333 Unapt to stir at these indignities,
0334 And you have found me, for accordingly
0335 You tread upon my patience. But be sure
03365 I will from henceforth rather be myself,
0337 Mighty and to be feared, than my condition,
0338 Which hath&nb
We know very little about the lives of the people transported to the Americas during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and who may have been forced into military service. Many of the 50,000 people who were transported there were illiterate, lacked resources to tell their stories, or died premature deaths in the inhospitable and punishing New World. Some traces of their lives survive in the form of wills and probate records. Some sensationalist accounts were told in pamphlets and booked which crossed the Atlantic. Yet we have a new resource which can give us a glimpse into their lives: recently, the English National Archives have catalogued a trove of letters, part of a collection called the Prize Papers, that were sent from colonists home to their families in the eighteenth century and which were on a ship, the Enterprize, which was captured by a French privateering ship on its voyage from Maryland to London in 1756. In the bundles of letters on that ship, we found two that convey the terror that transported men and women might feel at the prospect of the war and what it would bring for them.
The letters were from a man called Thomas Rhoades Showle, who was probably sentenced to transportation in 1739 from Gloucestershire. He directed the first letter to his grandfath
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It seems that every era in the middle ages has its historian whose exhaustive study puts it in the first rank. We had Edward A. Freeman with the Norman Conquest and James Hamilton Wylie with Henry IV and V. And now we have Jonathan Sumption covering the Hundred Years War in five volumes. I can’t believe I didn’t stumble across him until now! His scholarship is absolutely mind-boggling. He has covered events in such detail that much of the guesswork has been removed. This volume starts at the beginning of Henry IV’s reign and ends at Henry V’s death. We get a substantial look at what was going on in France, which had a huge impact on why and how the English were so successful in France. For instance, when describing the Dauphin Charles (in 1418):
Charles was earnest, intelligent and shrewd and would eventually become an astute judge of men. But he lacked self-confidence even as an adult. He was moody, changeable, and occasionally depressive, naturally risk-averse, withdrawn and taciturn in company, uncomfortable in the presence of strangers. Some of these qualities…made him temperamentally averse to war and uninterested in the chivalric values to which his father had been devoted in his brief prime. They also meant that he was easily led by intimates with stronger personalit