“Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it’s off the better.” Horatio Nelson Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson was a brilliant strategist and a highly successful navel commander. Perhaps the most beloved…
Tag: Napoleon Bonaparte
Her Real Name Was Rose
Rose’s first husband was killed in the “reign of terror.” She had also been imprisoned for being too close to the counter-revolutionary financial circles, but was miraculously was freed with the fall of the dreaded Robespierre. Her second husband was Napoléon Bonaparte, who insisted that she would be forever called Joséphine. Napoléon needed a rich…
Istanbul
“If the earth was a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.” Napoleon Bonaparte This is not quite a tea quote, but it is one that reminds us that Istanbul has always been a city of international trade and commerce. What came as a surprise to me was that tea was a latecomer to Turkey,…
