136. Newton and Locke discovered by Europe

136. Newton and Locke discovered by Europe

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Newtonian philosophy, and John Locke, along with Francis Bacon has an exciting empirical philosophical package that took Europe by storm in the 1740s, with the able assistance of Voltaire. Locke offered an epistemology interesting to philosophers, but people like Montesquieu were more taken by his description of the interaction between political players, early public choice theory. The excitement came from the Baconian...

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1798 Battle of the Nile, Aboukir Bay

1798 Battle of the Nile, Aboukir Bay

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Global War on the Far Side of the World

Global War on the Far Side of the World

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This covers most of the colonial wars with the French and Dutch during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. You get a cumulative eff...

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1797 Spithead Mutiny, the Nore and Battle of Camperdown

1797 Spithead Mutiny, the Nore and Battle of Camperdown

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The 1797 mutinies went hand in hand with financial crisis. This was the most dangerous period for Britain and the miracle during the Fre...

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1797 Cape St Vincent, Jervis and Thomas Cochrane

1797 Cape St Vincent, Jervis and Thomas Cochrane

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The new French and Spanish alliance is ascendant in the Mediterranean. The strategic move the Spanish make is more dictated by the roya...

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1795 1796 Naval Campaigns

1795 1796 Naval Campaigns

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We cover some of the heroic events that increased pride and self confidence of the Royal Navy: Pellew's defeat of a 74 with 2 frigates a...

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The Glorious First of June

The Glorious First of June

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1793 French Revolutionary War; War of the First Coalition

1793 French Revolutionary War; War of the First Coalition

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. 1793 is a year of opportunities thrown away. The allies dominate the poorly disciplined French army, but waste the summer in pointless s...

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149. 1792 French Revolutionary Wars

149. 1792 French Revolutionary Wars

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This covers the first year of the War of the First Coalition, which ends with the "homicidal philanthropy of France." Brunswick's invasi...

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