Monday, February 10, 2025

Lovely re-discovery--Account of Michael Symes to the Kingdom of Ava--1795.

https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/Symes-1827-Embassy_to_Ava-Vol.I-tu.pdf
I saw the original of this in the Social Science Library in the 1960s-70s, but I wasn't much interested in Burmese history at that time, too many problems in the present.
My interest now is only to write fiction--like Dalrymple's White Moghuls.

Hegseth blocks promotion of one star Navy admirals while--

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/hegseth-blocks-promotion-of-several-navy-officers-to-1-star-rank/ar-AA24B7T6?ocid=BingNewsSerp