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Charles Cordell
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C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent, Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell, Wins
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God's Vindictive Wrath (Divided Kingdom, #1)
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The Keys of Hell and Death (Divided Kingdom, #2)
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Desecration: Winchester 1642 (Divided Kingdom, #1.1)
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17th Century Almanac for September – Ship Money, cod & corsairs
Newfoundland cod, first Atlantic triangular trade, pirates and slaves.
The post 17th Century Almanac for September – Ship Money, cod & corsairs appeared first on CHARLES CORDELL.
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"A superb short story connecting books one and two of the Divided Kingdom trilogy. Charles Cordell continues his unique style of fact-based, story telling, overlaying the personal lives of individuals known to have lived at that time. The description "
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"An historical fiction based on the mid-17th century English Civil War. I don’t recall reading a fiction from that event before though it’s well known to school children here as ‘Roundheads vs. Cavaliers’ or more accurately the bloody political strugg"
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“Bible in one hand, pistol in the pistol in the other, the preacher sat astride a horse, his voice lifted to God’s light and a clear sky.”
― God's Vindictive Wrath
― God's Vindictive Wrath
“Only the poor remained, those who had no money and nowhere else to go. Another governor, more merchants and soldiers would come to take the place of those that left. But the poor always stayed. They always stayed put. And they always stayed poor.”
― The Keys of Hell and Death
― The Keys of Hell and Death
“Grenville's line of Cornishmen swayed and lurched, a low growl running through the ranks like a storm far out at sea, the boulders grinding as the waves built. And then it burst, men yelling, shaking their weapons in the air, the pikes clashing, thumping the ground, shouting, demanding, exclaiming, 'Kernow vedn keskerras!' Cornwall will march!”
― The Keys of Hell and Death
― The Keys of Hell and Death
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“The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity”
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― The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
― The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
― The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
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“The horse’s hooves crashed out on the stone floor, echoing in the arched entrance. Ahead, the nave stretched, vast, empty, bathed in colour; the winter sun streaming through stained glass between great arches. The horse snorted, its measured steps ringing out on the flagstones and tombs.”
― Desecration: Winchester 1642
― Desecration: Winchester 1642
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