George Stephenson - illiterate until 18?
'Canton' (China) - trading for tea
Britain grew opium in India to sell to China?
'The Nemesis' - British warship - 'ironclad'
Tolstoy was against serfdom?
Totlstoy freed his serfs.
Oct 1859 - Totlstoy sets up a school to educate serfs?
1860 - Lincoln becomes President
11 Southern States broke away to form the Confederacy
April 12, 1861 - start of the Civil War
January 1, 1863 - Emacipation Proclamation
April 9, 1865 - The South surrenders
Richmond, Virginia - Confederate Capital
'Sic Semper Tyrannis' - Thus always to tyrants.
1905 - Japan and Russia - war
'Henry Morton Stanley' - first Westerner to chart the Congo River
Leopold II - King of the Belgians
1917 - Germany's new Foriegn Secretary - Arthur Zimmermann - 'one of the most destructive individuals of the 20th century' - Marr
'Zimmermann telegram' - intercepted by Britain
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Monday, 5 November 2012
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