Short Stories
Alfred the Great’s fighting days started early
May 13, 2013
Archduke Albrecht: an elite soul
May 6, 2013
Columbus raises a Cross in Hispaniola and miracles follow
April 25, 2013
Patton’s Leadership Demanded Discipline
April 15, 2013
The “Great Captain” Gonsalvo de Cordoba: an unmatched leader
April 11, 2013
Love of Faith and country trump parental love
April 4, 2013
Queen Isabel tames her quarrelsome nobles
April 1, 2013
Kings should teach their people to shun sin
March 25, 2013
Elites should be exemplars of virtue
March 21, 2013
A real duchess rebukes a counterfeit Emperor
March 18, 2013
Queen Isabel meets her confessor
March 7, 2013
How a Pope buys firewood from a poor beggar girl
March 4, 2013
“The Dragon-Slayer” Knight of Rhodes
February 28, 2013
Patton on keeping the enemy running
February 25, 2013
Patton on leading from the front
February 7, 2013
Priest rebukes King publicly during Holy Week ceremony
February 4, 2013
German military praise for General Patton’s audacity
January 17, 2013
Wars come and go, but the wine tradition endures
January 14, 2013
The Seneschal de Joinville gives good counsel to Saint Louis IX
January 10, 2013
St. Joan of Arc: her death liberated France
January 7, 2013
General Washington was among the first pioneers going West
December 31, 2012
A brave and good counselor is a king’s priceless treasure
December 27, 2012
Empress Sisi’s Christmas for the poor
December 24, 2012
There was a time when war was infused with Christian courtesy
December 20, 2012
Paris and all of France rejoice at the birth of a Crown Prince
December 17, 2012
The prayer Patton commissoned before the Battle of the Bulge
December 13, 2012
Empress Sisi’s secret visits to the poor
December 10, 2012
Bravery and charity in a French Prince: the Duke of Berry
December 6, 2012
The deathbed advice Louis XIV gave his great-grandson and heir
December 3, 2012
Siege of Jasna Góra, November 28-December 27, 1655
November 29, 2012
A French heir to the throne saves a man from suicide
November 26, 2012
A French Prince becomes the Good Samaritan of a hurt soldier
November 22, 2012
Empress Sissi was fearless in epidemics
November 19, 2012
Prince Eugen of Savoy crushes the Turks at Zenta
November 1, 2012
General Patton stuns Marshall Zhukov into silence
October 29, 2012
A Saintly King Pardons a Rebellious Noble
October 25, 2012
A dethroned Queen’s dignity amidst defeat
October 22, 2012
Isabella the Catholic: majestic and saintly even in death
October 18, 2012
Bayard’s honor under siege
October 15, 2012
Columbus as a man of faith and devotion
October 1, 2012
Social entertaining reached an apogee during the Old Regime
September 24, 2012
Malicious tongues lash at Empress Sissi
September 20, 2012
García López de Cárdenas discovers the Grand Canyon
September 17, 2012
Kings must stand their ground during revolutions
September 13, 2012
Portrait of the Sieur de la Salle, explorer of the Mississippi
September 10, 2012
Disguised, Archduke Albrecht inspects a Viennese soup kitchen
September 3, 2012
