jonka wrote:In AP Euro history, we are learning about the thirty years war, and on a side note, we were talking about how the French debt in 1648. Their solution was the sale of Church offices to the highest bidder (those who held church offices were tax exempt). And after the Bourgeoisie and the nobility bought these, there is no more wealth coming from these families (these offices passed from father to son), and classes. So in the long run, it was terrible(for France). It caused the French Revolution (through debt), and created all sorts of problems that most of you are probably familiar with.
I drew a connection to the modern day from this.
To be honest, I think the main thing you can draw from it is that, back in the middle ages, people were
really naive. I mean, surely the name 'Thirty Years War' would've given them an idea of how long it'd last, it was obviously going to be a bloody expensive thing to keep up and, in the end, cause problems.
French people, eh? Always been
pretty hopeless at the whole 'war' thing, bless 'em ...
The Battle of Fishguard was a military invasion of Great Britain by Revolutionary France during the War of the First Coalition. The brief campaign, which took place between 22 February and 24 February 1797, was the most recent effort by a foreign force that was able to land on Britain, and thus is often referred to as the last invasion of Britain.
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The heroine of the hour was Jemima Nicholas, who with her pitchfork, went out single-handedly into the fields around Fishguard and rounded up 12 French soldiers and 'persuaded' them to return with her to town where she locked them inside St Mary's Church.
