Tag Archives: United States

Flashback Friday: 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Pensacola

In 1814, Pensacola and Florida was still nominally Spanish territory although the Napoleonic Wars had left much of Spain’s control over its colonial empire in ruins. With the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland at war with the United States, General Andrew Jackson who had just defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of […]

Monday Musings: Support for Scottish Independence, 50 years since the “Daisy Ad,” Florida paces US victory in Prague, ISIS a real threat?, Dennis Baxley, Islamic Caliphate history

I have been derided in both soccer and political circles as an “anglophile,” and it is a label I have come to accept and even embrace after trying to fight it off for years. I have after all spent more time in my life in and around London then in any major American city except […]