Thanks Sloyne/Chris for that they're some stories that we can be proud of has anyone got
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Thanks Sloyne/Chris for that they're some stories that we can be proud of has anyone got
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anymore?
Hi Paul
Thanks, Paul. We probably need a page for Liverpool dragoon commander and MP
General Sir Banastre Tarleton. As a lieutenant colonel in the British Army he was commander of the "British
Legion" made up of American loyalists in the southern campaigns of the American Revolution. He remains a controversial figure in the United States for his
supposed brutal tactics, most famously at the alleged massacre at Waxhaws in South Carolina. Another thing that makes him controversial is that as MP,
coming from a slave-trading family, he defended slavery in Parliament. Thus the Tarleton name came up at the time of the recent proposal rename Liverpool
streets that had connections to slavery, there being both a Tarleton Street and a Banastre Street in Liverpool. His father had been mayor of Liverpool in
the 1760's and both his father and brother engaged in the slave trade. He was also in the news because a descendent recently auctioned off some
American militia flags captured by Tarleton through Sotheby's in New York for a phenomenal
price.
Best regards
Chris George
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Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
The Hollywood film The
Patriot also showed him in a bad light I seem to remember.
Yes the fictional character of Tavington, played byOriginally Posted by Paul
D;23620
Liverpool-born actor Jason Isaacs was based on Tarleton.
Chris
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Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
Hi
Sloyne
Thanks for this helpful information... great stuff. One little note of correction, at the time of the Battle of Lundy's Lane, Napoleon was in
exile on the Island of Elba and thus out of commission. His captivity on Elba enabled some 10,000 British troops to be sent to North America, around 4,000
to the Chesapeake under Major General Robert Ross and 6,000 to be placed under the command of Major General Sir George Prevost in Canada. It was the
September 1814 twin defeat of the British thrusts against Baltimore, after the burning of Washington, D.C., by Ross, and the one down the Champlain Valley by
Prevost, which forced the British government under Robert Jenkinson, second Lord
Liverpool to conclude peace in Ghent, Belgium, in December. The American victory at New Orleans occurred January 1815 after peace was concluded but
not ratified by the government of President James Madison.
Napoleon's final defeat came at Waterloo after he escaped from Elba and reigned for a 100
days and then was sent into his final exile on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he died in 1822, allegedly, some claim, by poison administered
either by an agent of the French monarchy or by his British captors.
Chris
P.S., yes, Sloyne, I will start a thread on General Sir Banastre
Tarleton shortly.
Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
Napoleon died from the gasses given off by the wallpaper adhesive of the time - or it made him sick anyway.
The war of 1812
the Yanks think they won or was a draw. The 1812 war, the British WON. The US declared war on Britain and Britain took the war right into the US, and even
into the White House - the Shropshire Light Infantry burnt the place down after having dinner there. Must have been an early MacDs, so that would want you to
burn the place down.
The 5th line of the US national anthem,
"and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air",
describes the British
rocket regiments and rocket ships attacking Fort McHenry. The British pulled out of the USA when they achieved their aim - stopped the US from infiltrating
and making claims on Canada. The Brits didn't want the USA, if they did they could have just taken it. After just defeating Napoleon nothing was going to
stop them.
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
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Just as a point of interest, I have visited both islands. My first time on St. Helena
was in 1959 and my return was just two years ago. Quite an awkward place to reach but, well worth the effort. Thanks for the corrections and I am looking
forward to your submission on Tarleton.
Emilia di Liverpool (Emilia of Liverpool) is a dramma semiseria, ("half-serious")
dramatic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Giuseppe Ceccherini wrote the Italian libretto after the anonymous libretto for Vittorio Trento's Emilia
di Laverpaut, itself based on Stefano Scatizzi's play of the same name. It premiered on July 28, 1824 at the Teatro Nuovo,
Naples.
Liverpool's very own 19th century opera
is having it's first staged performance for more than 170 years in the city.
Donizetti's Emilia Di Liverpool is being performed at the Royal Court
Theatre this month by a local opera company.
Producer Una McAuley and music critic Lyn Walker join Jenni to talk about the production. Soprano Sam Wright
will perform an extract from the opera.
Emilia Di Liverpool runs at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool from 24th until 27th July.Box Office: 0151 709
4321
How many cities can claim to have an opera written about them by a foreigner.
Hi Paul
I have
heard Donizetti's "Emilia di Liverpool" ("Emilia of Liverpool"). He has parts in the opera for the Mountaineers of Liverpool. Shows he never visited the
place.
"My favourite geographical mistake in the arts is Emilia di Liverpool, a 19th century opera by Gaetano Donizetti. Described by the
present-day The Times reviewer as having 'charm and improbability in equal proportion', Emilia di Liverpool is set among the mountains of Liverpool,
and mentions the limpid River Mersey and the 'Liverpool mountaineers'. (For non-UK readers with no geography, Liverpool is a port city on flat land and the
Mersey a busy and polluted shipping lane; and it probably wasn't much different in the early 19th century when Donizetti wrote the opera)."
Apothecary's Drawer Weblog April 2001
Donizetti's "Emilia di Liverpool" after a century in
obscurity was performed on 12 June 1958 in a concert version by the Liverpool Music Group conducted by Fritz Spiegl as part of the celebration of the city's
750th anniversary. (Jeremy Commons, "Emilia di Liverpool," Music &
Letters, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Jul., 1959), pp. 207-228).
Chris
Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
I did realise
he'd never been here but it's still a coup though it just an example of Liverpool's Global fame.
The World's* largest ever
outdoor gig for a single** artist- Wacko at Aintree.
*I think it is the World's rather than just Europe's
**Could be the largest for a 'solo'
artist rather than for just one act-ok I'm bein lazy here and should check the facts on his site which is where I got the info from but I know it's still
the World's largest gig for one of those two.
Candyman
Based on a Liverpudlian urban legend and first put into story form in Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden," in the book In the Flesh. The original story was set in Liverpool.
So Candyman was originally set here.
The Royal Navy battleship "The Prince of Wales" was adopted by the city of Liverpool whos citizens had raised the full building cost of £10 Million-a staggering £280 Million in todays money.
The ship was built at Cammell Lairds between 1937/41 was with HMS Hood when when the ship was sunk by the enemy battleship "Bismarck" off Iceland in May.
During the action,two shells from The Prince of Wales damaged the Bismarcks fuel tanks.This caused a large oil slick which led to the German warship being hunted down and sunk.
On December 8th The Prince of Wales left Singapore with 4 destroyers but with no air cover,two days later it was attacked and sunk.Although the ship is now a designated war grave,it was feared the bell might be stolen by unauthorised divers,the bell from the Prince of Wales in on display at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
A Liverpool link to the sinking of the Legendary Bismarck.
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