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Georgian historian, heritage consultant and cat fanatic. Author of 'War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era' bit.ly/2HL6lO4

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Brook Watson's teenage encounter with the shark was the subject of John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark (image: National Gallery of Art, Washington)

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2020-02-29

Future PM, the 3rd Duke of Grafton, had superb friends in high places from an early age. In 1757, George II told the 21 year old: 'I always honoured and loved your grandfather, and lament his loss. I wish you may be like him; I hear that you are a very good boy.'

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2020-02-27

Historians love to be encouraged. Edward Gibbon's labours on the Roman Empire was apparently met with these warm words from George III's brother, the Duke of Gloucester: 'Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?'

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2020-02-07

For here are the of the Harris family, Earls of Malmesbury (image: wiki media)

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2020-02-03

1 February 1814: Battle of La Rothière. The battle marked Napoleon's first defeat on French soil. Lady Burghersh noted: 'The loss was severe; I don't know what. C. Stewart says he left the dead yesterday piled up in heaps.'

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2020-02-01

Sorry have tweeted way too much on the 1st Duke of Wellington today!! So will bid farewell for now to His Grace and leave you with his arms!! (Image: British Museum)

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2020-01-30

The campaign highlighted Gen Charles Stewart's strained relationship with Moore. He wrote to Castlereagh on 19 Dec 1808: 'however meritorious & brave He may be...His Temper will not lead him to soar with energy...as another friend of mine (i.e. Sir AW) would do.'

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2020-01-16

Looking forward to reading Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune by . Dodgy view on that brilliant and gifted diplomat Sir Charles Stewart: 'employed...in a succession of posts for which he did not strike most observers as being temperamentally suited.'

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2019-12-21

Although even if Napoleon had won at Waterloo would the huge Allied army marching westwards have accepted the result?

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2019-12-19

I was made a viscount, earl and marquess. But quite by fluke, I got made a duke. Sorry thats best I can do this late...#WellyTheMusical

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2019-12-16