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After being captured at Saratoga, Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne and his staff stayed in Tory Row. While there, they are said to have pricked a negro servant boy to death with their sword points, just for after-dinner amusement. There's nothing like a good parlor game...
...brigands approached Canterbury Cathedral. When the prior tried to bar the doors, the archbishop said: "The House of God should not be made a castle. I command you, under holy obedience, to open those doors!" In cold detail, Author Duggan describes how Becket, the trained warrior, suffered the fatal sword blows, and said, with his dying breath: "For the Holy Name of Jesus and the safety of His Church, I offer myself to death...
High point for this new Mannerist revival is the current, three-month-long exhibition assembled by Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. To show for the first time the full extent of Mannerist accomplishment, art objects ranging from bronze sculpture and oil paintings to glassware, furniture and sword hilts have been assembled from 155 museums and collectors. The show, though more a hit with critics and art-museum professionals than with the public, has already drawn 35,000 visitors. More significant, it has redefined the Mannerist century as an era rich in independent art style and as a seedbed for future...
...England and one oi the 63 judges who condemned King Charles I to death. After the Restoration he fled to the American wilderness, where for decades he was a fugitive from the vengeance of Charles II. With his steeple hat, his flowing white beard, his Bible and his sword, William Goffe became a New England legend (Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of him as The Gray Champion}. Years after his death, the shade of William Goffe reportedly appeared at Bunker Hill, and, later, before John Brown in the engine house at Harper's Ferry...
...British army officers of the 18th century performed with pen as well as sword. Cadets were instructed in sketching, not to encourage fine art but so they could draw readable pictures of forts, gun redoubts, and details of military operations. One of the few who far surpassed these minimum military requirements was Thomas Davies, a British artillery officer whose American and Canadian watercolors were brought to light in Britain only two years ago On display this week at Canada's National Gallery in Ottawa, they have already established Davies as "the father of Canadian landscape painting...