The Dreadnought

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Some more thoughts on Christopher Clark’s 1848

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Aug 14, 2023
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TWO YEARS BEFORE EUROPE erupted in a spree of revolutionary liberty, a smallish clique of Polish nobles tried to mount another one of those glorious and doomed insurrections so beloved by smallish cliques of Polish nobles. Their goal, in February of 1846, was to recapture territory lost during the last Partition a half-century earlier. No national revol…

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