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TIL - during her reign Queen Victoria survived eight assassination attempts

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Queen-Victoria-Eight-Assassination-Attempts/Open link View original on sh.itjust.works

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WabiSabiPapi

lemmy.world

"...frustrated at Britain’s attempts to help Ireland during the Irish famine..."

lol. was this written by an English aristocrat?

Pons_Aelius reply

kbin.social

It is a UK history site that open with this:

Queen Victoria had a majestic sixty-three-year reign... (majestic despite 1-2 million irish starving to death, the majority a direct result of British government policy to use the famine to reform the Irish)

So I don't expect anything close to historical balance.

rockerface 🇺🇦 reply

lemm.ee

Just like Soviets helped Ukraine in the 30s, eh

Kbin_space_program

kbin.social

It's missing that the definition of "help" there is "help themselves to Irish land"

EpsilonVonVehron

lemmy.world

… He made his way up to the front of the large crowd and pulled the trigger of his pistol, but it failed to fire. This was because instead of it being loaded with bullets it was loaded with bits of tobacco. After the attack he was sentenced to 18 months hard labour.

I wonder if he had put gunpowder in his pipe also.