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@EduardHabsburg The last great Spanish and Imperial Habsburg collaboration: The Battle of Nordlingen 1634.

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@Gentleman_Ways @HistoriaJack When he died, his wife burnt all his letters and manuscripts: one of the great tragedies of literature.

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@historyinmemes Do we know why he fought against the English? I’ve struggled for a long time to inform my students why Luxembourg and Bohemia are fighting together against the English in the 14th century.

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@simonmontefiore I was born in 1975 and named after Simon Peter - surely the inspiration for most parents naming their sons Simon?

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@DanielJHannan Most historians believe WWI has slid into.

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@EduardHabsburg He says he thoroughly English/British but forgets there’s never been an ArchDuke title on this island.

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@NCL_Uncovered The river Trent is the historic boundary

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@NoContextBrits Lancashire

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@simon_schama @_F_B_G_ It was a long penalty shootout 1793-1815

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@CapelLofft Old Joe, arguably the most powerful man who ever lived, as Colonial Secretary at the zenith of the British Empire.

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@EduardHabsburg @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @odysseymovie @TomHolland1996 Do the Hapsburgs trace trace their ancestry back to Troy?

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@CapelLofft Is it true that Neville had a disabled / severe learning difficulties son whom Neville always kept close to him on all his travels?

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@CapelLofft He sounds English, with soft Estuary accent. He’s Caucasian also, so must be acceptable as an honourable Englishman. Lol!!

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@CapelLofft Being the cockpit of Europe: Ramillies, Waterloo, Passchendale, Battle of the Bulge to name just a few.

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@BladeoftheS Slight correction - France had a King until 1848

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@Matt_Pinner Robert

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

The homes of our first ten presidents 🧵:

(Look for 11-20 soon)

1. George Washington, Mount Vernon

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@davidyelland I prefer the Hive library at Worcester to be honest

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@michaelgove Did I just stumble into a Anglo-Scottish joke?

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@lewis_goodall @owenjonesjourno @redrumlisa A few miles down the road in Hartlepool?