Since today is another one of those mathematically coinciding days, in the sense that 11 + 2 = 13, time for 3CM's usual default option on such days, namely random historical trivia related to the two most recent past 11-2-13's, i.e. from 1813 and 1913. Granted, at times self wonders how random the findings are, given the particular means of searching for trivia examples and how they show up in the given order off the Google search. However, I end up defeating that anyway since I skim the initial results and hone in on items that looks choice, and rearrange the order anyway in this diary. With that, on to the 400th (!) SNLC....
In the UK, on November 2, 1813, two Sirs were named baronets, namely:
(a) Sir Thomas Hislop, of Tothill, a lieutenant general in the British army
(b) Sir Josias Rowley, a rear admiral in the British navy ("of the white" as the text indicates))
Speaking of the UK, a volume published in 1819 in London, The New Annual Register, Or, General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1818 had this sentence:
"The year 1813 was nearly as remarkable for treaties as for battles."
One of those treaties was the Treaty of Fulda, signed exactly 200 years ago, which the
wikipedia entry summarizes thus:
"The Treaty of Fulda was signed on November 2, 1813 at Fulda, Hesse, in Germany. It was signed by King Frederick I of Württemberg and Austrian foreign minister Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich after the Battle of Leipzig. Based on the terms of the treaty, Württemberg was no longer a member of the Confederation of the Rhine."
In fact, that is the
entire text of the wikipedia entry. (Does this count as plagarism?)
In a tome by by Christopher Kelly, Esq., voluminously titled:
A Full and Circumstantial Account of the Battle of Waterloo: The Second Restoration of Louis XVIII; and the Deportation of Napoleon Bonaparte to the Island of St. Helena, and every recent particular relative to his conduct and mode of life in his exile, together with an interesting account of the affairs of France, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Distinguished Waterloo Heroes (Embellished with Engravings)
which was also published in 1818, there is a passage
here which begins:
"Ulrickstein, November 2, 1813
Field-marshal Blucher had originally intended to keep the high road to Frankfort, on which he was already the foremost in advance; but the columns of the grand allied army following close on the same route, the solicitations of the prince marshal commanding it, who represented the difficulties of subsistence and the advance of General Wrede on Hanau, induced him to turn off to the right, so as effectually to prevent the enemy from retreating by the way of Coblentz."
In fact, speaking of the aforementioned General Wrede, the Holy Roman Emperor Franz II communicated in a letter to the General
as follows:
"Fulda, November 2, 1813
My dear General of Cavalry, Count von Wrede!
Your valiant deeds, which cover you and those of the Allied army under your command with glory, induce me to give a testimonal of my esteem towards you. I herewith send you the Commander's Cross of my Military Order of Maria-Theresa. In wishing you sincerely a speedy recovery of the severe wound you have received on the 31st of October, I hope that Providence, which has so conspicuously favoured our arms, will like restore to Germany and Bavaria so wise and brave a general!"
Jumping ahead 100 years to November 2, 1913, and on the much, much lighter side, to start with here, there is a slightly amusing legal report from the
Mail Tribune of Ashland, OR:
"The circuit court will resume its sessions Nov. 4, the first matter being the arguments in the trial of Mrs. Ownie Knutzen, charged with assault to commit mayhem upon Mrs. Philo Bivens during the progress of a quarrel over an irrigation ditch last July. All the testimony was introduced yesterday. The adjournment was taken to the court until after the election tomorrow."
People born on Nov. 2, 2013, besides Burt Lancaster and the British sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones, included:
(1) Marjorie Grace Nietfeld of Fort Laramie, WY
(2) Charlotte Moore of Muscatine, IA
(3) Wilma Lucille Wise of Tampa, FL
(4) Sister Caritas Hopfenzitz (born Maria Luise Hopfenzitz in Oettingen-Nittingen, Germany)
No big historical stuff like for 11/2/1813 that I could quickly find for 11/2/1913, though, so that's it. With that, time for the usual SNLC protocol below, namely your loser stories of the week.....