A Short Miscellany of History Notes

Napoleon


Hints of that which we can learn related to Napoleon:

The law of the U.S. state of Louisiana is significantly influenced by Napoleonic Law.

Prussians are the ones who saved the peoples of Great Britain from the armies of Napoleon. 

Napoleon made his brother king of Spain and for the next six years, 1808 t0 1814, the Spanish people waged a guerrilla war against the French. At the same time the colonial peoples of Mexico, South America, and Central America fought wars of independence from French Spain.

If Napoleon as his first name, what as his second name? It that question was too easy try this on: How did U.S. commercial policy and actions relate to the Opium Wars?  

The sixty yeas of war from 1776 to 1815 did much to prepare busy little America and most of Europe to prepare for the Industrial revolution. In the U.S. immigration made labor so cheap that employers were free to pay the lowest wage possible. Most immigrants then were ignorant of our freedom to control the distribution of our wealth.

Discontent of workers in Europe led to the revolts of 1884 there. The savagery of the repression of those revolts showed the nature of the the ruling class of the time. This same discontent led to a great deal of immigration to the Americas, much of it to North America.


by Richard Sheehan
for Mago Bill and you 

My Paternal Grandfather

Mago Bill: More of, who wants to know, about Mago Bill

 

                I never met him. He was the first of my paternal grandmother's three husbands. He was born on the 26th day of August of the year 1884 in Des Moines, Iowa. In that same year the Brick and Clay Workers of America was founded on May 18th; the Ringling Brothers gave their first circus performance in Baraboo, Wisconsin; Eleanor Roosevelt was born in October; and Pope Leo the XIII condemned secular Freemasonry.   
                He was named Joseph Carroll Sheehan.
                He married Josephine Sophia Helwick on January 16th 1907 in Chicago, Illinois. My father, Carroll Joseph Sheehan was the eldest of the four children they bore together. In the year of that marriage the English and French nations agreed on Siamese independence; William James' "Pragmatism" was published; Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout movement; and the first daily comic strip "Mr. Mutt" is run in the San Francisco Chronicle and later became Mutt and Jeff.
                Joseph Carroll was the son of Mago William Sheehan and Mary J. Carroll.  

 

 

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