... this pitch for sixty years sloggers like Clive, who still wear their halo in our history-books, which are chiefly written by Whigs. His Grace might have offset this by citing the blameless annexation of Southend, now one of the brightest jewels, etc., etc ...

... of State for Foreign Affairs since the reform of the Foreign Office in 1783) has been decried by the conventional school of Whig historians as a betrayal. But it is a Foreign Secretary's task to make his policy the issue of a marriage between the will ...

... Fontenoy (May, 1745) was almost entirely due to the superb last-moment charging of the Irish Brigade. Another little rap for the Whigs. There were Irish on the other side as well, as is liable to happen in almost any brawl. What is no less interesting about ...