The Daily Sir Walter

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August 15 is a memorable date for at least two important 18th/19th century figures.  Napoleon Buonaparte was born August 15, 1769, and Sir W...

I’ve always enjoyed John Buchan’s framing of the environment surrounding Edinburgh in the year 1771.   The first three paragraphs say so ...

Lawyer and phrenologist George Combe, author of “The Constitution of Man” died on August 14, 1858.   Combe’s work, which was published...

‘Thursday 13 August 1663  …Thence to Mrs. Hunt’s, where I left my wife, and I to walk a little in St. James’s Park, while Mrs. Harpe...

12 August in 1668 … Home to dinner, where Pelling dines with us, and brings some partridges, which is very good meat; and, after din...

Gustavus Adolphus , who Walter Scott’s "A Legend of Montrose" character Major Dalgetty served during the Thirty Years’ War, bu...