Notes

Contents: At the deathbed of Alexander the Great -- Hannibal crosses the Alps -- Christmas day in the year 800 -- Venice, July 24, 1177 -- Magna Carta and the King's men -- Rebel leader confronts King at Smithfield in 1381 -- Ten thousand brutes in Renaissance Florence -- August 9, 1588 : the Spanish Armada (almost) surrenders -- The Globe Theatre, February 7, 1601 -- With the Prince of Wales in Madrid, 1623 -- By fits and starts : the making of Isaac Newton's principia -- Frederick the Great and the propagation of potatoes -- The "uncouth riddle" of Edouard Manet : le dejeuner sur l'herbe at the Salon des Refuses -- Nicholas 2 signs the October manifesto -- Tunnels, territory and broken promises : France betrayed by the Anglo-Saxons? -- Backstage at the Ballet Russes with Picasso -- Exorcising Aristotle's ghost -- The German surrender to Montgomery at Luneburg Heath, May 1945