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28 Aug 2004 04:01:49 AM |
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OT: Annus mirabilis |
Annus mirabilis
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1291547,00.html
Bernard Cornwell finds fools at the helm in 1759, Frank McLynn's
account of the year modern history began
Saturday August 28, 2004
The Guardian
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World
by Frank McLynn
422pp, Jonathan Cape, £20
Frank McLynn's splendid book tells the story of a year in which
colonialism flourished, the slave trade was at its height and the
future emergence of the United States was virtually guaranteed. It
also makes a plausible claim for regarding that year as the genesis of
modern history. Blame it all on Hiawatha.
Hiawatha was the mythical founder of the Iroquois nation, which begat
the Iroquois Confederacy, which was properly called the Hodenosaunee
League. As McLynn tells us, "sober historical opinion inclines to the
view that it was the Hodenosaunee League that triggered the global
conflict known as the Seven Years war". No real blame there; the
Hodenosaunee were pawns on a chessboard dominated by France and
Britain, and McLynn's book describes the climactic year in which the
heavy back-row pieces clashed mightily and Britain was triumphant. The
French were on the retreat in India, had lost Quebec, were defeated in
the West Indies and their attempted invasion of Britain was destroyed
in the ghastly storm-bound battle of Quiberon bay.
Frank McLynn
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Hiawatha
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Iroquois OR Hodenosaunee
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Forgotten Founders
http://tinyurl.com/t74q
http://tinyurl.com/t750
http://tinyurl.com/t754
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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