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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote2021-10-04 10:27 pm
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Frederick the Great and Other 18th-C Characters, Discussion Post 31

And in this post:

-[personal profile] luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!

-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and [personal profile] selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!

-[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War

(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)

-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D
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Re: The Great Northern War: Overview

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2021-11-05 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
I'm just saying, it's no wonder I thought "I have resolved X" was a perfectly legitimate way to say things :P

You would fit in well in the 18th century!

So I want to hear about this guy! is he like the tragic Fredersdorf

Kind of! Not to fear, he's on my list of things to talk about! I just need to reread the highly inaccurate but more memorable section in Massie and then the more accurate and less memorable in Hatton to get the events straight in my head so I can pass them on.