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1762 – Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III. Prussia’s Frederick the Great says that Peter allowed himself to be overthrown, “like a child being sent to bed.” More at: History
I am a poet and soldier, born in Shropshire, England. After studying at Shrewsbury Technical School, I left England to teach English in Bordeaux in 1913, where I first began to write. After enlisting as a soldier in the First World War (1914-1918), I was wounded and sent to recuperate near Edinburgh. Here I met…
