History Trivia Thread Reducks

[The Brain]

This person published ideas on free trade, market forces, and relationship between society and economics that closely resembled Adam Smith's ideas in The Wealth of Nations, several years before Adam Smith. Who was it?

Anders Chydenius.

[Admiral Yi]

"This person"?

Fuck.  Did you google?

[Solmyr]

This person published ideas on free trade, market forces, and relationship between society and economics that closely resembled Adam Smith's ideas in The Wealth of Nations, several years before Adam Smith. Who was it?

Anders Chydenius.

Correct, you are on.

[The Brain]

Open floor.

[AnchorClanker]

Which one of Napoleon's marshals was half-English and was the sole Marshal of France (at the time) to speak English?

[Oexmelin]

I was tempted to say MacDonald, but IIRC, he is from an old jacobite family, i.e., not properly English, and probably didn't speak the language.

[AnchorClanker]

I was tempted to say MacDonald, but IIRC, he is from an old jacobite family, i.e., not properly English, and probably didn't speak the language.

Correct - MacDonald was 3rd generation French, and spoke no English.  It's a tricky one.

Here's a hint - he was to command the Imperial Guard on the 1815 campaign, but took ill and didn't go as planned.

(EDIT) Looked it up as I wasn't sure - MacDonald's father was Scot - for some reason I thought he was from an earlier line of emigrants

[Admiral Yi]

Marshal Crenshaw

[AnchorClanker]

Marshal Crenshaw

  His surname was French, as his mother was English.

[Eochaid]

Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier

Kevin

[AnchorClanker]

Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier

Kevin

Oui.  Well done.  An under-rated commander.  You're up.

[Eochaid]

A famous slave, I was also a martial artist. Today, I am a national hero

Kevin

[citizen k]

A famous slave, I was also a martial artist. Today, I am a national hero

Kevin

Toussaint l'Ouverture

[Eochaid]

A famous slave, I was also a martial artist. Today, I am a national hero

Kevin

Toussaint l'Ouverture

Nope

Kevin

[HisMajestyBOB]

Frederick "Black Belt" Douglass