Margaret Nicholson manuscript material : 3 items ca. 1786-1794
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George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
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George III was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George's long life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Furt...
Nicholson, Margaret, approximately 1750-1828
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Margaret Nicholson, English assailant of King George III. From the guide to the Margaret Nicholson manuscript material : 3 items, ca. 1786-1794, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English housemaid who attempted to stab George III with a dessert knife in 1786; died in Bedlam; subject of burlesque verses by Shelley and Hogg. From the description of Signature, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270972344 ...
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Captain Fortunatus Wright (d. 1757), English merchant and privateer, was financed by British merchants in 1744 at the outbreak of war with France to outfit a ship to prey on French shipping in the Mediterranean, which he did successfully for more than a decade. When prizes taken from the French included Turkish property, the Ottoman Empire - backed by the merchantsof the Levant company, successfully lobbied the British government to rule that turkish goods could not be seized. Wrwight was arrest...
