i have had an epiphany regarding two of my favourite historical figures:
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thinking about Them... (my amazing War of 1812 stamps that I still need to frame)
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British and Indigenous Forces Under Sir Isaac Brock Conquered an American Army at the Battle of Queenstown Heights on the Niagara Frontier in Ontario, Canada. October 13, 1812.
Image: The death of General Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights by John David Kelly (1862 – 1958) published 1896. (Public Domain)
On this day in history, October 13, 1812, British and Indigenous forces under Sir Isaac Brock conquered an American Army at the Battle of Queenstown Heights on the Niagara frontier in Ontario, Canada. The British triumph, in which over 1,000 U.S. soldiers were…
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RQG SEXYPERSON COMPETITION MASTERPOST
Each round will last a week.
ROUND ONE
POLL A:
ada lovelace VS albert einstein VS amelia earheart VS amelie rose VS apophis VS ashen VS atsuanuub VS augusta leigh VS aziza hawaa al-tahan VS azu
WINNER: azu
POLL B:
barret racket VS bertus VS sir bertrand "bertie" macguffingham VS bi ming gusset VS bolla smok VS brock VS bronc VS celquinthion sidebottom VS charles babbagge VS chinua
WINNER: celquinthion sidebottom
POLL C:
cicero VS draal VS driak VS edward keystone VS eldarion VS elijah wormwood VS emeka VS eren fairhands VS eva van djik VS feryn smith
WINNER: edward keystone
POLL D:
figgis VS francois henri VS franz kafka VS friedrich (airship) VS friedrich (cult of apollo) VS gideon marsten-langdon VS gragg coulson VS grizzop drik acht amsterdam VS guivres VS hamid saleh haroun al-tahan
WINNER: grizzop drik acht amsterdam
POLL E:
harrison campbell VS hawaa layla halima VS hirald smith VS howard carter VS isaac newton VS jacques piaget VS james barnes VS jasper VS jean-luc bolieau VS jeremy
WINNER: james barnes
POLL F:
khantu VS kiko VS kondha VS la gourmande VS lady starling VS liliana beekos VS little VS maximus VS lord byron VS marie curie VS meerk
WINNER: kiko
POLL G:
mr ceiling VS natun VS nikola tesla VS oscar wilde VS paulette loup VS rakefine VS richard haringay VS sagax VS saira hawaa layla al-tahan VS saleh amoun al-tahan
WINNER: oscar wilde
POLL H:
saleh ibrahim al-tahan VS sasha racket VS sassraa VS selene souchet VS shoshva VS siggif VS skraark VS sohra VS sumutnyerl VS tadyka
WINNER: sasha racket
POLL I:
thomas edison VS vesseek VS vivianne messier VS yoshida shoin VS zolf smith
WINNER: zolf smith
ROUND TWO
POLL A:
azu VS celquinthion sidebottom VS edward keystone
WINNER: celquinthion sidebottom
POLL B:
grizzop drik acht amsterdam VS james barnes VS kiko
WINNER: james barnes
POLL C:
oscar wilde VS sasha racket VS zolf smith
WINNER: oscar wilde
ROUND THREE
celquinthion sidebottom VS james barnes VS oscar wilde
WINNER: oscar wilde
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Death of General Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights. War of 1812
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i can never stop thinking about that one post thats like "the guy from modest mouse sings like hes always being chased with a hose" i've been listening to modest mouse since i was like five or six and it's the most succinct way it has ever been described and it genuinely haunts me even when i listen to more normal modest mouse songs where isaac brock is not doing the things he can do with his voice. like wild pack of family dogs. i listen to that shit and i think good lird sir keep running lest the hose catch you...
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Characters/Personagens
Characters that I write about. This list can update from time to time.
Personagens que eu escrevo, a lista pode atualizar de vez em quando.
Fandom List/Lista de Fandom
Request rules and blog rules/ Regras de pedidos e regras do blog
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Animation/Animação
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Drácula
Hector
Isaac
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Boku no Hero Academia
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Mirai Sasaki/Sir Nighteye
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Rumi Usagiyama/Mirko
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Bungou Stray Dogs
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Haikyuu
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Ittetsu Takeda
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Jed
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Leorio Paradinight
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Marvel Comics Universe
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Kang
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You can ask me any Tumblr sexy Person
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Vil Shoenheit
Thank You Very Very Much!
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Events 10.13
54 – Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adoptive son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.
409 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
1269 – The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1307 – Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy.
1332 – Rinchinbal Khan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
1399 – Coronation of Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey.
1644 – A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
1710 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
1775 – The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
1812 – War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock's British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer's United States forces.
1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is publicly proclaimed.
1843 – In New York City, B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.
1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard is first to discover a comet by photographic means.
1903 – The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
1908 – Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.
1911 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
1915 – First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
1917 – The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
1921 – Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
1923 – Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
1943 – World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds above 150 mph. Forty-six people die.
1972 – Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. Twenty-eight survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on December 23.
1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.
1977 – Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
1990 – Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1993 – At least 60 people die in eastern Papua New Guinea when a series of earthquakes rock the Finisterre Range, triggering massive landslides.
2010 – The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days underground.
2013 – A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.
2016 – The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
2019 – Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.
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I started posting the backstory for my RDR2 fic OC, Grace. The thing that bothers me the most about it is all of the historical inaccuracies even after doing a fuckton of research. But the truth is, facts started to get in the way of the narrative. And besides, my BFF who is a real life historian with a doctorate and everything said it’s fine.
Anyway, here is the fic if you want to read an original story.
And here is a pic of the main characters, Grace and William.
Grace’s image is one I made in artbreeder a year or two ago so she definitely does not have an historically accurate hairstyle. The picture I chose for William is a portrait of Sir Isaac Brock I found from Brock University. It wasn’t very clear on who the artist is, but this is pretty much exactly as I pictured William.
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"FLY-PAPER TRAPS A HUMAN VICTIM," Toronto Star. January 23, 1913. Page 1.
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Joseph Shanahan, Scheuer Diamond Robber, Gets Five Years.
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SERVED TIME BEFORE
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Record in United States - Magistrate Denison Found Him Too Clever.
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Fly-paper has entangled the feet of Joseph Shanahan to the extent of committing him to the Kingston Penitentiary for five years. He was this morning convicted as the man who, on New Year's Eve, entered the Edward Scheuer jewelry store at 90 Yonge street, and got away with nearly $3,000 worth of diamonds. To avoid burglar alarms, the man cut his way through the ceiling from an office above, and the detectives found in the morning that the burglar, to deaden the noise of breaking glass, had pasted fly-paper over the showcase
John H. Sloan, druggist, at 528 Yonge street, came to the Police Court and identified Shanahan as the man to whom he made a sale of flypaper a few hours before the burglary.
"He said he was an engineer and wanted to catch cockroaches, so I took a good look at him," said Mr. Sloan. Shanahan was arrested in Louis Goodman's store for second-hand goods, on Queen west, the proprietor stating that Shanahan sold him seventy-five of the Scheuer rings.
Where He Sold the Spoils.
"I gave him $75," stated Goodman, "and told him to come back for another $25."
But in the meantime, before Shanahan returned, Goodman had arranged a signal with the police. When a certain little book was placed in the window, among the jewelry, it told the detectives waiting across the road that the man had fallen for the bait of an extra $25.
Shanahan in court denied the sale of the rings. He believed it was a patched-up case on the part of the police.
He gave his home as a small village near Lindsay, and his counsel, T. Robinette, suggested, "You are in some way descended from Sir Isaac Brock?"
"That may be right." Shanahan returned, "but I don't care to go into that here."
Served Time Before.
A little cornering on the part of Crown Attorney Hughes brought out the fact that, under the alias of Frank Adams, the man was given a three-year term in Joliet Penitentiary, and upon another occasion was mixed up in a questionable manner with a New York divorce case.
"He is too clever a man to let out easily," the Crown Attorney continued, "he is building up a record in the United States, we don't want the example followed here."
"He is remarkably clever," the magistrate agreed, "but dangerous. Like all criminals he overlooked one small thing. Think, if he had only taken the fly-paper away with him, he might have been free yet. He will serve five years in Kingston Penitentiary."
[AL: Shanahan was 37, born in the Windsor area, listed his trade as a news reporter, and had served three previous terms in the Joliet Penitentiary. He was convict #F-541 at Kingston Penitentiary, and worked in some hard labour gangs like stone cutting and the stone pile. He was admonished by the warden in May 1914 for contraband, and in 1915, was reported in August for talking, losing 3 days remission, and for fighting in October. For the latter he was transferred to the Prison of Isolation for a year. He was released in 1917.]
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im always a slut for 18th c. military history
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listening/watching to hamilton makes me want to keep writing that isaac brock/tecumseh fic i started it’s such a great idea i really wanna finish it but like i can’t but lin give me strength i’mma dedicate it to you
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I can't believe I didn't post about the Battle of Queenston Heights on October 13th: not just an important War of 1812 battle, but the inspiration for one of Stan Rogers' best songs! (Also on Spotify).
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St Saviour’s Anglican Church, Queenston
Dedicated to General Sir Isaac Brock, killed at Queenston Heights 13 October 1812.
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Signalling her number
William John Huggins (1781-1845), A Frigate Signalling Her Number Off Ramsgate.
This painting is a current listing on the marine art auction market, brought to my attention by a person who regularly scours auction sites. I can't find any additional information on Bonhams besides the title, and the lifespan of the artist (so we know that this was made in 1845 or earlier).
She flies the Red Ensign, also known as the "Red Duster", of the British merchant navy. The flags at her foremast and mainmast are from Captain Marryat's Code of Signals.
First Distinguishing Pennant: this shows that she is signalling the number of a merchantman. Other distinguishing pennants or flags would be used to express places, bearings, or sentences from Marryat's code. @ussporcupine demonstrated how Marryat's flags were used to send messages in AMC's Franklin expedition TV series, 'The Terror'. Even Royal Navy ships would use Marryat's code—and a Franklin expedition officer posed with a copy of Marryat's signal book, which might explain why the TV series chose to employ it.
So the numerical flags in Huggins' painting are a merchant ship:
This is 4230 or 4239. The last flag is slightly obscured, and I have tried reading it as both a zero or a nine:
If it were a 9, the upper left corner would be blue, not yellow, which is not what the painting appears to show. If it was important enough for the ship's owner to commission this painting, you would think that the artist would take care to show the correct signal flags.
The earliest edition of Marryat's Code of Signals online is from 1847 (Google Books link), which is a potential problem. If this ship was wrecked soon after 1845 (or even earlier, since the painting is undated), the corresponding merchant ship number in the 1847 edition wouldn't be her. But it's the best reference I have, and I looked up merchant ships using the first distinguishing pennant (the second pennant was also used for merchant ships, but that's not ambiguous here):
General Brock? Like Sir Isaac Brock? (The indentation appears to function as a "ditto"). Conveniently on the same page, merchant ship 4239 is General Graham. The list of ships is from Lloyd's Register, a company which is still around today, and they have their historical records online.
The connection between Captain Marryat and his Code of Signals and the powerful Lloyd's Register is not an accidental one. Joseph Marryat Sr., Frederick Marryat's father, happened to be both a Member of Parliament and an important board member at Lloyd's, which didn't go unnoticed at the time the Code of Signals was first published in 1817:
Urged on by his father, Marryat devised his Code of Signals for merchant shipping, which could be employed in parallel with naval signals. It divided into six parts: the first two, lists of warships and merchantmen, each identified by a number; thirdly, signals representing named ports, headlands, channels and reefs; fourth, signals for sentences commonly used at sea; finally a section for vocabulary and another for the alphabet. Published in 1817, it was promoted by Joseph Marryat, through his influence at Lloyd’s, prompting the sour comment from one ship-owner that, ‘When it is considered that Captain Marryat is the son of the chairman of the Committee of Lloyd’s, I am sure the ship-owners and the public will do every justice to the very ingenuous manner in which it has been brought forward.’ But influence, or ‘interest’, as it was known in the Navy, was one of the principal driving-forces of society and was taken for granted. Once the new code had been accepted by Lloyd’s, all its insurance agents, every ship-owner, the master of every merchantman, every pilot, coastguard and excise officer and soon every warship had to have a copy. Its success, both practical and commercial, was assured.
— Tom Pocock, Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer, and Adventurer (2000)
So far, my attempts to cross-reference this ship in Lloyd's Register have yielded confusing results. The 1847 edition, which should match up with the Code of Signals I used, doesn't have a General Brock or General Graham. But both names are in the 1830 edition.
Here General Brock is identified as a brig (Bg), which is a two-masted vessel and can't be the ship in the painting. s.C. means copper sheathed. General Graham is a ship (S), and the most likely candidate at this point. Both vessels are 'SDB' or single deck with beams.
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