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21 August 1670-1734 Background and early career Berwick was a bastard of James Duke of York (later James II) and Arabella Churchill (sister of John Churchill duke of Marlborough). At age 7 Berwick was sent to France in order to raise him in the catholic religion. There he went to college of Juilly, and later […]

The battle at Calais between the French knights who are trying to capture it by a ruse and the English who lie in ambush. The miniature shows two armies of foot soldiers meeting in a field and attacking each other with lances. On the right are the French, led by Geoffroy de Chargny, who is […]

SCHOMBERG or SCHÖNBERG, Friedrich Hermann (1615-90), Duke of SCHOMBERG (1689). His father was Court Marshal to James I’s son-in-law the Elector Palatine Frederick V and his mother Anne, daughter of the 5th Lord Dudley. He enjoyed the title of Baron Tetford in the Peerage of England. As a mercenary he served Bernard of Saxe-Weimar from […]

Napoleon Bonaparte on board the British ship Bellerophon by Sir William Quiller Orchardson Riding in the Basque Roads near Rochefort on the morning of July 15, 1815, the two-decker Bellerophon rocked comfortably in the long swells as a lookout sighted a boat coming out from shore. A familiar-looking figure-running to fat and wearing a cocked […]