Before Nelson, no decisive blow was made against the French. But with Nelson came a series of crushing defeats, most notably at Aboukir Bay in 1798 and Trafalgar in 1805. All hopes of invasion went up ...
During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...
Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...