Graeme Garrard

Vladimir Lenin directing the October Revolution, from Plakat, 1926. New York Public Library. Public Domain.

Lenin: The Machiavellian Marxist

Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, was an armed prophet who adopted the characteristics of Machiavelli’s lion and fox.

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Washington is Burning

In August 1814, the US capital was torched by British troops. The ‘greatest disgrace ever dealt to American arms’ left its legacy on the US, Britain and Canada.

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The Saviour of Canada

Graeme Garrard recalls Isaac Brock, the Guernsey-born army officer still celebrated in Canada for his part in defending British North America from the United States in the War of 1812.