Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Queen Elizabeth and the 1579 river barge 'assassination attempt'


Queen Elizabeth was mighty lucky to survive a gun repeatedly firing at her river barge in 1579. For the man responsible, Thomas Applegate, his fate hangs by a thin thread. 

The 1812 Assassination of British Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval

  John Bellingham was a rather unremarkable and unassuming fellow whom history would doubtless have forgotten him had he not met Prime Minis...