Henry Freeman > Quotes

“The musicians, who were all English, included one pianist, Theodore Ronald Brailey; three cellists, Roger Marie Bricaux, Percy Cornelius Taylor, and John Wesley Woodward; a bassist, John Frederick Preston Clark; and three violinists, John Law Hume, Georges Alexandre Krins, and the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley. They were brought on deck near where the lifeboats were being loaded early on to help keep morale high. As the night went on and the situation became more dire, they continued to play, probably believing it was all they could do to express their own anguish and comfort the increasingly panicked crowd. Many survivors reported hearing them playing until shortly before the sinking.”
― Henry Freeman, Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship

“The First World War, known at the time as “The Great War”, was a four-year conflict that spanned the globe––involving thirty-two countries in total. It was an unforeseen war that resulted from a series of calamities that broke the delicate arrangement of European powers, and ended with the loss of over eleven million military personnel and seven million civilians.”
― Henry Freeman, World War 1: A History From Beginning to End

“Some of this news made its way to unfriendly ears.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“Over the next ten years, more and more families and clans began to align themselves with the rising leader.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“I break my word, then let me be as the water of the river.” —Genghis Khan”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“Caesar sought to insert himself directly into the affairs of Ptolemaic politics by directly intervening in the dynastic struggle between Ptolemy and Cleopatra. Caesar proposed that both factions of the Egyptian government should seek audience with him to dictate the future terms of government in Egypt.”
― Henry Freeman, Julius Caesar: A Life From Beginning to End

“last, in June, the city surrendered. Genghis himself was not present, having already departed for eastern Mongolia.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“writers of history exaggerated the records of Genghis’ brutality and downplayed positive attributes”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“Most important to Genghis, the Silk Road, the famed trading route between east and west, ran through Khwarezm.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“voyages”
― Henry Freeman, Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship

“was the second, and Britannic was the third. Britannic also met an untimely end: it hit a mine and sank in 1916 during World War I, while the Olympic remained in service until 1935.”
― Henry Freeman, Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship

“Titanic scheduled to begin”
― Henry Freeman, Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship

“main competitors were the German-owned Hamburg America line and the British-owned Cunard line (which merged with the White Star Line in 1934 and now operates Carnival Cruise Line). Cunard had recently launched two new remarkable ships that”
― Henry Freeman, Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship

“World War, known at the time as “The Great War”, was a four-year conflict that spanned the globe––involving thirty-two countries in total. It was an unforeseen war that resulted from a series of calamities that broke the delicate arrangement of European powers, and ended with the loss of over eleven million military personnel and seven million civilians. What had started as a diplomatic feud brought on by the assassination of a monarch erupted into a conflict that engulfed the world and changed the map of Europe - forever. The war brought about revolution; it ended empires, dissolved monarchies and led to the development of war machines that play a crucial role in the modern conflicts of today. It was thought at the time that the war wouldn’t last more than a few months, and that victory would be won easily and without much cost. However as the months turned into years and the war spread like hell-fire, it scorched Europe and surrounding continents. Entire cities were leveled, genocides were committed and exploited for strategic advantage, and all sides were hit with immense losses. The war quickly became one of attrition, with mass slaughter the strategy and marginal gains the result. It was a new war being fought with old tactics, an industrialized grinding machine that ended the lives of so many.”
― Henry Freeman, World War 1: A History From Beginning to End

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” —Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence”
― Henry Freeman, American History in 50 Events

“Harland”
― Henry Freeman, Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship

“For the task, Genghis saw that the keeping of written records would be necessary.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“Those in the city began to starve, reportedly resorting to cannibalism.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“Pompey offered after the hand of Pompeia, a distant relative of the general, to become Julius’ second wife.”
― Henry Freeman, Julius Caesar: A Life From Beginning to End

“Traditionally, order among the nomadic peoples came in the form of clans and tribes, but Genghis had started to change that.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“Between Temujin, Toghrul, and Jamukha, a force of thousands of men and horses was mobilized to march against the Merkits.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“Titanic would cost about 7.5 million pounds to construct, a staggering sum of money at the time.”
― Henry Freeman, Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship

“only one answer to that question: Genghis Khan.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life From Beginning To End

“So instead, he followed the direction Sorkan-shira had taken until he found the man’s ger.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“He knew that even though he was wreaking terrible devastation on them, their sheer overwhelming numbers would eventually overtake Khan and his forces. Genghis now heeded the warning warning that the Ch’in emperor himself was have said to have issued at the outset of aggression when he told him, “Our Empire is like the Sea; yours is but a handful of sand.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life From Beginning To End

“and proved themselves capable and loyal.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“slaughter”
― Henry Freeman, World War 1: A History From Beginning to End

“any case, the Emperor Xian was executed despite his gifts.”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“This new way of appointing leaders helped to undermine the problems of rivalries and divisions that had often caused disunity”
― Henry Freeman, Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End

“The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on the night of April fourteenth 1912, and sank in the North Atlantic waters in the wee hours of the following morning. She took more than 1,500 souls with her. While this death toll is devastating, it is by no means the greatest at-sea catastrophe in western history. Even besides wartime disasters, the explosion of the Mont-Blanc in Nova Scotia killed almost two thousand in 1917, the 1707 Sicily Naval Disaster killed almost the same number of people, and several other shipwrecks with smaller death tolls were arguably more dramatic. Yet fascination with the Titanic has persisted since she rested on the ocean floor, long before James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster film. Why?”
― Henry Freeman, Titanic: The Story Of The Unsinkable Ship