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The “Whites” in the Russian Civil War Were Not Monarchists

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 February 2026

This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1905 Revolution, Admiral Kolchak, Aleksandr Kolchak, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Kolchak, Alexey Kaledin, Allies, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Armed Forces of South Russia, Ataman, Baltics, Black Army, Black Baron, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Bourbons, Britain, Central Powers, Communism, communists, Constituent Assembly, Constitutional Democrats, Cossacks, Czechoslovak Legion, David Lloyd George, democracy, Dimitry Lehovich, Directory, Dobrarmiya, Dobrovolcheskaya Armiya, Don Cossack Host, Don Cossacks, Don Host, Entente, Estonia, ethnic nationalists, ethno-nationalists, Evan Mawdsley, Finland, Finns, First World War, France, General Alfred Knox, Germany, Great War, Hetman, Ice March, ideology, Imperial Russia, Jews, Kadets, Kazakhstan, Kuban, Lavr Kornilov, liberal democrat, liberalism, liberals, Mensheviks, Mikhail Alekseev, Mikhail Alekseyev, Mikhail Rodzianko, Mitteleuropa, monarchism, monarchists, Napoleon Bonaparte, nationalism, nepredreshenchestvo, Nikolai Iudenich, Nikolai Yudenich, non-predetermination, Northwestern Army, Octobrist Party, Octobrists, oriyentatsiya, patriotism, Pavlo Skoropadsky, Peter Kenez, Peter Krasnov, Peter Wrangel, politics, propaganda, Provisional All-Russian Government, Provisional Government, Provisional Siberian Government, Pyotr Krasnov, Pyotr Wrangel, Randstaatenpolitik, Reds, Republic, republicanism, Richard Pipes, Russia, Russian Civil War, separatists, Siberia, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Sovdepia, SRs, Symon Petliura, terrorism, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Tsarism, Union of 17 October, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, White Armies, White Guards, White Movement, Whites, Woodrow Wilson on February 12, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1866 – 1876

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alexander Herzen, Alexander II, Alfred Talandier, Anabaptism, Anabaptists, anarchism, Anna Geifman, Übermensch, Bakuninism, barin, Battle of Frankenhausen, Beznachalie Group, Bidbei, Bolsheviks, capitalism, Chigirin affair, Christianity, Communism, constitutionalism, DDR, Decembrist Revolt, Demons, Dmitry Karakozov, Dmitry Pisarev, East Germany, Farmers’ War, First International, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Going to the People, Iakov Stefanovich, ideology, industrialisation, Ishutin Society, Ivan Gavrilovich Pryzhov, Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, Jacobinism, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Kolokol, konspiratsiya, Leninism, Mark Natanson, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Pokrovsky, monarchy, morality, Nabat, Narodism, Narodnaya Rasprava, Narodnaya Volya, Narodnik, Narodovoltsy, Nechayevism, Nechayevshchina, Nikolai Ishutin, Nikolai Mezentsov, Nikolai Romanov, Nikolai Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, obshchina, Osip Aptekman, Paris Commune, Pavel Pestel, Peasants’ War, People’s Retribution, People’s Summary Justice, Peter Tkachev, propaganda, Pyotr Lavrov, Pyotr Shuvalov, Pyotr Stolypin, Pyotr Tkachev, Pyotr Tkachov, Pyotr Tkachyov, Pyotr Zaichnevsky, Raskol, Reformation, Romanovs, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Jacobins, Russian Orthodox Church, Schism, secret police, serfdom, Sergei Nechaev, Sergey Kravchinsky, Sergey Nechaev, Sergey Nechayev, Siberia, socialism, Soviet Union, Stepniak, Tchaikovskist, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Possessed, The Revolutionary Catechism, The Tocsin, Third Section, Thomas Muntzer, Tibor Szamuely, Tkachovism, Tsardom, Tsarism, USSR, utilitarianism, utopia, utopianism, Varfolomey Zaytsev, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Vladimir Lenin, Vperyod, Werner Tübke, What is to Be Done?, Yezhovshchina, Young Russia on November 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Maxim Gorky and Whitewashing Soviet Crimes

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, capitalism, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Communism, enemy of the people, Ernst Röhm, fascism, First World War, Gabriel Konstantinovich, Genrikh Yagoda, Germany, Great Terror, GULAG, Holodomor, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kornilov Affair, Lavr Kornilov, Letopis, Mark Twain, Marxism, Maxim Gorky, National Socialism, Nazi Party, Nazis, Nazism, Nicholas II, Night of the Long Knives, Nikolai Bukharin, NKVD, NSDAP, Okhrana, Okhranka, Potemkin tour, Povolzhye famine, propaganda, Pyotr Kryuchkov, RSDLP, Russia, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Sergei Kirov, show trials, socialism, Socialist Realism, Socialist Revolutionaries, Solovki Camp, Soviet New Man, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Trial of the Twenty-One, Tiberius, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Soviet Writers, Vladimir Lenin, Volga famine, Weimar Republic, Yezhovshchina, zeks on November 16, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Nazis Who Fled to South America: Where, Who, and Why?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 October 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Action 14f13, Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, agents, Alfredo Stroessner, Allied High Commission, Alois Hudal, Anabaptists, Andes Mountains, Angel of Death, Anschluss, Ante Pavelić, anti-Communism, Antisemitism, Apartheid South Africa, Arab States, Arabs, Argentina, Armin Schoklitsch, August Siebrecht, Augusto Pinochet, Austria, Axis Powers, Baroness Agnes von Gemmingen-Guttenberg, Bay of Pigs invasion, Benito Mussolini, Blagoje Jovović, Blanco Party, BND, Bolivia, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Brazil, Britain, CAPRI, Carlos Fuldner, Charles Lescat, Charles V, Che Guevara, Chetniks, Chile, clean Wehrmacht myth, cocaine coup, Colonia Dignidad, Colorado Party, Communism, Conquistadors, criollo, Cuba, death camps, Dignity Colony, DINA, Dinko Šakić, Dirty War, East Germany, Eduard Roschmann, Egypt, Einsatzgruppen, El Excelentísimo, Enrique Peñaranda, Erich Priebke, Ernesto Guevara, Erwin Rommel, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, euthanasia, extermination, fascism, Félix Rodríguez, Federal Intelligence Service, Fidel Castro, Francisco Franco, Francoist Spain, Franjo Tuđman, Franz Stangl, French Resistance, Friedrich Jeckeln, Friedrich Schwend, Gehlen Organisation, General Franco, General Government, genocide, Gerhard Bohne, Germans, Germany, Germán Busch, Gestapo, Getúlio Vargas, Gualberto Villarroel, Gustav Wagner, Gypsies, Haiti, Hans Ertl, Hans Fischböck, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Hartheim Castle, Heinrich Himmler, Herbert Cukurs, HICOG, Higinio Morínigo, Hitler Youth, Holocaust, Holocaust By Bullets, Hugo Banzer Suárez, Inca Empire, Independent State of Croatia, Indians, Indigenous, Intelligence, Israel, Jasenovac concentration camp, Jean Moulin, Jews, Josef Mengele, Josef Schwammberger, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito, Juan José Torres, Juan Perón, Jugoslavija, KGB, Klaus Altmann, Klaus Barbie, Kripo, Krunoslav Draganović, La Dolorida, Ladino, Latin America, liberalism, Luis García Meza, Mario Terán, Marshal Tito, Martin Bormann, Mayans, Mennonites, Mexico, military dictatorship, Monika Ertl, MOSSAD, Muslims, National Intelligence Directorate, National Liberation Army, National Socialist German Workers’ Party, Native Americans, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, NDH, NSDAP, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation CONDOR, Operation ODESSA, Operation REINHARD, Pablo Escabar, Paraguay, Paul Schäfer, Peronism, Peru, Plan CONDOR, Protestants, racism, ratlines, Reich Security Main Office, René Barrientos, Richard Gott, Roberto Quintanilla, Rodolfo Freude, Roma, Roman Catholic Church, RSHA, Rumbula massacre, Russia, Schutzstaffel, Secretariat of Intelligence of the State, Serbs, Serge Klarsfeld, Shoah, Sicherheitsdienst, Sicherheitspolizei, Simón Bolívar Beate Klarsfeld, SiPo, Sobibor, South Africa, South America, Soviet Union, Spain, spies, Stanislaw Szmajzner, Syria, T4 program, Third Reich, Toto Quintanilla, Treblinka, Tupamaros, U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, UDBA, Ukraine, Uruguay, Ustasha, Ustaše, Walter Kutschmann, Walter Rauff, Walter Unrath, war crimes, war criminals, War of the Triple Alliance, Wehrmacht, West German, Wilhelm Holm, Yugoslavia, Četniks on October 31, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Meeting Protestants in Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Russia and tagged A Jesus Mission, atheism, Austria, Battle of Poltava, Bible, Bolsheviks, Catherine the Great, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Crimea, Crimean Khanate, Dnipro, Donald Trump, Donbas, Donetsk, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Euromaidan, Evangelical Christianity, George Floyd, Germany, Gleb Kopalin, God, Golden Horde, Greek Catholic Uniates, GRU, Habsburgs, Hezbollah, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Ignatius Aphrem II, Igor Pilipyshka, Intelligence, Israel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews for Jesus, KGB, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus, Kyiv Jewish Messianic Congregation, Latin Christendom, Lebanon, Left-Bank Ukraine, Little Green Men, Luhansk, Maidan Uprising, Mariupol, Mercy House, Minsk I, Minsk II, Mongols, NATO, Nazis, Nicodemites, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Protestantism, Protestants, Prussia, Reformation, religion, religious persecution, Right-Bank Ukraine, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Save One More Life, Second World War, secularism, siloviki, Soviet Union, spies, Stephen Smith, Syria, Twitch, Ukrainian Cyborgs, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, White Angels, Zaporizhiya on May 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1845 – 1866

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 September 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1848 Revolutions, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander Serno-Solovyevich, anarchism, Arthur Koestler, Baron August von Haxthausen, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, Christianity, Communism, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrists, Dmitry Karakozov, Dmitry Pisarev, Enlightenment, equality, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Georgi Plekhanov, ideology, Ivan Turgenev, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Karl Marx, Kolokol, Leo Tolstoy, liberalism, literature, Marxism, materialism, Men of the Forties, Men of the Sixties, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Mikhailov, Mikhail Petrashevsky, mir, Muslim Brotherhood, Narodism, Narodists, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nazis, Nazism, New Man, Nicholas I, Nihilism, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Dobrolyubov, Nikolai Nekrasov, Nikolai Speshnev, Nikolay Ogarev, obshchina, Ossip Komissarov, Pavel Pestel, Peter the Great, populism, Pyotr I, Pyotr Zaichnevsky, revolution, Russia, Russian Idea, Russian intelligentsia, Sayyid Qutb, Science, secret police, Sergey Uvarov, Social Darwinism, socialism, Sovremennik, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Russian Tradition, Third Section, Tibor Szamuely, Tsar, utilitarianism, Varfolomey Zaytsev, Vissarion Belinsky, Vladimir Lenin, What is to Be Done?, Zemlya i Volya on September 30, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Nature of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Imperialism

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 August 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Alaska, Aleut, Aleutian Islands, Alexander II, Alexander III, American Indians, autocracy, Bartolomé de las Casas, Bolsheviks, Britain, California, Canada, Catherine the Great, Central Asia, Christianity, colonialism, Cossacks, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, dinosaurs, Djibouti, East India Company, Ekaterina Geladze, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Entente Cordiale, Ethiopia, Fashoda Incident, Finland, First World War, Fort Ross, French Revolution, French Somaliland, Georg Anton Schäffer, Germany, Great Game, Great Reforms, Greek Catholics, Grigori Rasputin, Grigory Shelikhov, Hawaii, Hudson’s Bay Company, Imperial Government, Imperialism, Innocent of Alaska, Iran, Islam, Jews, Joseph Stalin, July Crisis, Kaiser, Keke, Kodiak, Koniag, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Manifest Destiny, March to India, Marquis de Custine, Mongol Empire, Muslims, New Archangel, New Moscow, Nicholas I, Nikolai Achinov, Okhrana, Okhranka, Ottoman Empire, paganism, Panjdeh Incident, Paul I, Pavel I, Persia, Peter the Great, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Pyotr I, Roman Empire, Russia, Russian America, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Somaliland, Russian-American Company, Russo-Japanese War, Sagallo, salt water fallacy, Scramble for Africa, serfdom, Siberia, Sitka, slavery, slaves, Soviet Union, Spain, Spanish Americas, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third World, Tlingit, totalitarianism, Ukraine, Uniates, United States, Velociraptor, Veniaminov, Vitus Bering on August 29, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Chaim Weizmann, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Protestantism, Raj, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin Didn’t Go Quite As He Planned

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Alsu Kurmasheva, assassination, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Central Intelligence Agency, Chechnya, Cheka, China, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, Communism, conspiracy theories, Dagestan, ethnic cleansing, Evan Gershkovich, FSB, George W. Bush, History, Hungary, Intelligence, Islam, Jews, jihadism, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, KGB, Left-wing, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Custine, Muslims, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NSA, Orthodox Christianity, Poland, post-liberal, propaganda, religion, revisionism, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, secret police, Serbs, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, special services, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, Ukraine, Useful Idiots, Vadim Krasikov, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, War on Terror, Yugoslavia, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili on February 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Murder, Martyrs, and Mystery: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alba, Albigensian Crusade, Amboise conspiracy, Anabaptists, Angoulême, Anjou, Anne d’Este, Anne du Bourg, Armada, Armenian genocide, assassinations, Aumale, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Battle of Lepanto, Bayonne, Bolsheviks, Caterina de Medici, Cathars, Catherine de Medici, Catholicism, Charles de Téligny, Charles of Louviers, Charles V, Christendom, Christianity, Christophe de Villeneuve, Condé, Council of Trent, Counter-Reformation, dark ages, Edict of Amboise, Edict of Romorantin, Edict of Saint-Germain, Elizabeth I, England, Enlightenment, extermination, Fernando de Toledo, François de Lorraine, France, Francis of Lorraine, French Parlement, French Revolution, Gaspard de Coligny, genocide, Germany, Guy Du Faur, Henri de Guise, Henri de Valois, Henry of Guise, Henry of Navarre, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Huguenots, Ian Paisley, Ignatius of Loyola, Iran, Italy, Ivan the Terrible, Jacques de Savoie, Jean Poltrot de Méré, Jesuits, John Calvin, Ku Klux Klan, Louis de Gonzague, Lutheranism, Marguerite de Valois, Martin Luther, Mary Stuart, Mass, Maurevert, Monsoreau, Montpensier, Munster Rebellion, Nemours, Nevers, Northern Ireland, Ottomans, Papal Revolution, Philip II, pogroms, Pope, Pope Gregory VII, Pope Gregory XIII, Portugal, Prince of Orange, Protestant Wind, Protestantism, Psalms, Puritans, Puygaillard, Queen of Scots, Red Wedding, Reformation, religion, René de Birague, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Inquisition, Russia, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, sectarianism, Seigneur de Pibrac, Seigneur de Vaucluse, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Walsingham, Spain, Spanish Netherlands, superstition, Surprise of Meaux, Te Deum, Terror, The Wake-Up Call for the French and their Neighbours, Thirty Years’ War, Throckmorton Plot, Transubstantiation, Ugonottorum Strages, ultra-Catholics, Vassy Massacre, Vendée, Wars of Religion on August 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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