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How did the people of France go from executing a king in 1793 to near-unanimously endorsing an emperor in 1804? How was Napoleon able to convince people that his absolute rule was different to the kings'?

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I am the abbot of a medium-sized Medieval monastery and the king is presenting me with the Lance of Longinus. Do either of us believe it's the real thing? And are either of us bothered that the same lance is apparently in Constantinople?

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The night before the Battle of Quatre Bras, most of the senior officers in Wellington's army were at a ball until the early hours of the morning. Was this normal behaviour in a nineteenth-century army on active service?

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How far did men define themselves by their military service in the years after WWI?

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How did the people of France go from executing a king in 1793 to near-unanimously endorsing an emperor in 1804? How was Napoleon able to convince people that his absolute rule was different to the kings'?	5926
I am the abbot of a medium-sized Medieval monastery and the king is presenting me with the Lance of Longinus. Do either of us believe it's the real thing? And are either of us bothered that the same lance is apparently in Constantinople?	119
The night before the Battle of Quatre Bras, most of the senior officers in Wellington's army were at a ball until the early hours of the morning. Was this normal behaviour in a nineteenth-century army on active service?	75
How far did men define themselves by their military service in the years after WWI?	55