tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4496557758182556013..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: The Battle of WaterlooFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43923506659976349592022-06-22T18:54:44.796+01:002022-06-22T18:54:44.796+01:00Pyrrhic victories all round I think
I was thinking...Pyrrhic victories all round I think<br />I was thinking the other day about what happened to France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. <br />The monarchy fell in 1789 because the state was bankrupt after bankrolling the American revolution – to little or no gain.<br />France had a go at taking Spain’s position as ranking world power that it got from possessing most of the New World. Nichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026998533323487133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12425777690836133152022-06-21T15:18:41.877+01:002022-06-21T15:18:41.877+01:00Albrech, please provide convincing contemporary ev...Albrech, please provide convincing contemporary evidence that Bonaparte was a Mason.Andrew Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17273362558325263161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29295791673371462572022-06-19T22:15:26.799+01:002022-06-19T22:15:26.799+01:00When the Holy Roman Emperor, Tsar of Russia and Ki...When the Holy Roman Emperor, Tsar of Russia and King of Prussia divided up and extinguished the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, they did more damage to the concept of monarchy than the mobs who beheaded the monarchs of France. The door was opened for Napoleon to extend their logic across much more of the continent. Restoration was never taken seriously as anything other than a human effort. Percyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17320853739144623405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-37034852336331356412022-06-19T12:39:56.754+01:002022-06-19T12:39:56.754+01:00In terms of the lesser evil, although Napoleon was...In terms of the lesser evil, although Napoleon was a mason, be dared, totally out of madonic character, to try to take on the money power, and failed. Perhaps that was a function of his residual catholicism. For all his faults, I think he was the lesser evil.<br /><br />AvBAlbrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-73227201321479123362022-06-18T23:56:20.460+01:002022-06-18T23:56:20.460+01:00Remind me : when was the next general European war...Remind me : when was the next general European war? It's best to understand grand politics in terms of the lesser evil. IanWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14802289720095323373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87136569012291128872022-06-18T23:18:49.413+01:002022-06-18T23:18:49.413+01:00Long live Christ our King. Amen.Long live Christ our King. Amen.Christopher Boegelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162023841937939481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43510617793922518822022-06-18T14:56:32.883+01:002022-06-18T14:56:32.883+01:00🌺🌺Matthew F Klukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315970978087291635noreply@blogger.com