Author: Governor
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The English Novelist Who Dreamed a Nation Into Existence
How George Eliot’s final novel planted the seed of Zionism — twenty years before Theodor Herzl There is a peculiar kind of power that belongs only to fiction: the power to make people believe in a world that does not yet exist, and then go out and build it. George Eliot understood this better than…
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The Death of General Richard Montgomery
Richard Montgomery is famous for leading the American invasion of Canada in 1775. Born in Swords, Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland in 1738, he served in the British Army, but then joined the American patriots and became a Major General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Taking over the invasion of Canada…
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Frugal Use of Resources in Privateering: How Dominique You Got His Start
Letters of marque were granted by governments to successful privateers, because this was an economical way to engage in war without a heavy outlay — and without burdening the populace with either taxation or conscription. In privateering, the profit motive required that every expenditure on equipment should ultimately result in a return on investment that…