The intimate letters meant for French sailors have finally been opened, more than 200 years after they were sent. Historian Renaud Morieux uncovered the letters after going through a box at ...

Once forgotten in the British military archives, the 200-year-old love letters finally ... people they were destined to: letters written in the 18th century to French sailors during the Seven ...

“These letters shatter the old-fashioned notion that war is all about ... research for his book “The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French War and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century.” ...

Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written. The letters – sent to French sailors by wives, siblings and ...

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The packet of letters had been waiting in a French port until postal administrators ... Sparked accidentally in 1754 by a 22-year-old unknown named George Washington, it erupted into the Seven ...

"They will occupy historians of Britain and Europe and students of the French language and early modern ciphering techniques for many years to come." The codebreakers found the letters in the ...

The love letters were sent by the wives, mothers, and parents of crew members on-board French warship ... the young sailor’s 61-year-old mother, Marguerite compained that “I think more ...

King Charles V, the Roman Emperor and King of Spain. King Charles V, the Roman Emperor and King of Spain, was one of the most powerful rulers of the 16th century. During his more than 40-year ...