seems to suggest that he was confined there himself; no doubt examination of those packets of his papers as yet unopened will confirm this.
33 Kibroth-Hattaavah—'there they buried the people that lusted' (Numbers 11: 34, 35)—seems to have been a popular subject for sermons at public schools. Dr Rowlands preached on this text in
34 It is just possible that the orator was Karl Marx. The Strackenzian coronation must have taken place before his recorded return to Germany from Brussels, where he had conceived the
35 Eider Danes, a faction who wished to make Schleswig Danish as far as the River Eider. Von Starnberg's concern about pro-Danish militant organisations in Strackenz is understandable, as is his anxiety over Hansen's unexpected appearance at the wedding. What struck the editor as curious was that none of Bismarck's conspirators seem ever to have been alarmed at the prospect of Danish royalty attending the ceremony; that surely would have led to Flashman's exposure. But obviously none, did attend, and this can only be explained by the fact that King Christian of Denmark died on January 10, 1848—shortly before the wedding took place—and that this kept the Danish Court at home, in mourning. A rare stroke of luck for the conspiracy; one does not like to think it was anything else.
36 'Punch' stayed neutral in the checked-or-striped trousers controversy. One of its cartoons suggested that 'checks are uncommon superior, but stripes is most nobby'. But it was a middle- rather than an upper-class debate.
37 Flashman believes he sang the old nursery rhyme in English, yet it is interesting to note (see Opie's
38 Domenico Angelo Tremamondo (1717-1804), known as Angelo, founded a dynasty of fencing-masters who conducted an academy of arms in London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
39 Revolution swept across Europe in those early months of 1848. Within the space of a few weeks revolts took place in Sicily, France, Austria, Italy, Germany, and Poland; new constitutions and reforms were adopted in Naples, Tuscany, Piedmont, Rome, Budapest, and Berlin, and the
40 Presumably Flashman is referring to David's highly romantic painting of Napoleon in the Alps, and confusing it with other works by the same artist in which the Emperor is shown with retinues of suitably respectful subordinates.
41 In fact the telegraph had been in existence for some years, but its use was not sufficiently widespread to have caused Flashman concern.
42 There is some confusion about Lola Montez's movements during her final weeks in Munich; more than once she changed her mind about leaving, and made efforts to re-establish her hold over Ludwig. As to her walk through the hostile crowd, it is mentioned by at least one authority, and there is no doubt that the incident of her appearance on the balcony, splendidly dressed and toasting a raging crowd in champagne, is authentic. Her indifference to physical danger was remarkable.
43 And in the end Bismarck got his way; by waging war on Denmark in 1864 he achieved the occupation of Schleswig by Prussia and Holstein by Austria, thus helping to provoke the Austro- Prussian war of 1866. With Austria defeated as a rival, Bismarck by the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 united Germany minus Austria, and Schleswig and Holstein became part of the German Empire.
