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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
22: ...s-Auguste]] was shy, awkward and distant. He was only a year older than she was and had no sexual or r...
25: ... supposed to do on their wedding night. They had only a very vague idea of sex and this increased the ...
36: ...-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette's life changed suddenly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774...
83: ...med Jeanne Saint-Ré¹ de Valois, [[Comtesse de la Motte]], became aware of Rohan's desire to befriend the...
85: ...me impatient with the jeweller and snapped, "Not only have I never commissioned you to make a jewel &h... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
36: ...along the [[Atlantic Ocean]], Vermont is noted mainly for the [[Green Mountains]] in the west and [[La...
62: ...Sainte Anne]] on [[Isle La Motte, Vermont|Isle La Motte]] in [[1666]] as part of their [[fortification]] ...
66: ...ks]] burnt the settlement to the ground, leaving only chimneys and giving the area its name.
104: Vermont is the home state of the only two current members of the United States Congres...
121: Unlike other states, Vermont does not have a [[term l... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
3: ...ears' War" is used in the United States to refer only to the [[Europe]]an portions of the conflict (17...
8: ...esia]]. Empress [[Maria Theresa of Austria]] had only signed the peace [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]] i...
10: ...e the seas, as well as exert some influence on mainland Europe. Furthermore, this allowed Britain to f...
36: ...e Prussian general [[Heinrich August, Baron de la Motte Fouqu鼆ouque]] was defeated in the [[Battle of L... - Medieval fortification (8517 bytes)
15: ...[Netherlands]] and [[France]] but these belong mainly to the post-medieval periods. By [[1600]], the ...
22: ====Mottes, Baileys====
23: [[Motte-and-bailey|Motte-and-bailey]] was the prevalent form of castle dur...
25: ...ooms, including the great hall. Smaller ones had only a watch tower. - Castle (27805 bytes)
8: Castles were built not only as a defensive measure, and offensive weapon, bu...
46: ...ayeux Tapestry]], and was then familiar on the mainland of western [[Europe]].
48: ...he fortress, there was usually appended to it a [[motte-and-bailey|bailey]] or basecourt (and sometimes t...
52: ...where they found a natural rock stronghold which only needed adaptation, as at Clifford, Ludlow, the P...
55: ...of which defied the [[battering ram]], and could only be undermined at the cost of much time and labou... - Moat (2321 bytes)
4: ...mound on which a fortification was erected (see [[Motte and bailey]]), and then came to be applied to the...
10: ...d moats in the Middle Ages. At first they were only simple wooden bridges that could easily be destr...
14: While moats are commonly associated with European castles, they were also...
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