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A cheese update: it went off in the heat of the Spanish summer and what remained had to be sold at auction as it wouldn’t have survived the journey inland to the Spanish troops.
An old blog about Christmas in the Peninsula.
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I should probably clarify that it was 120,000lb of cheese in total. Not per hat. That’s still a lot of cheese.
Papers relating to the repatriation of Spanish POWs in July 1808. Along with the muskets, swords, accoutrements & cartridges going with them to Corunna were ‘hats of cheese’ weighing 120,000lb. I assume a hat was like a wheel but taller than wide. Anyone come across the term before? #cheese #history
A taste of the titles coming in the first half of next year from Helion's From Reason to Revolution series. www.helion.co.uk/forthcoming-...
Cartoon from Punch, October 1937.
Received my royalties statement today and have had to buy a new washing machine. The two amounts are almost exactly equal. Easy come, easy go.
Back at The National Archives for the fist time in a while. Will be looking at Sir John Moore’s papers amongst others.
Today is publication day for the paperback edition of So Just and Glorious a Cause! www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
#History #Portugal #NapoleonicWars
