History Memes

Context: During the Irish Great Famine (potato famine), the Ottomans wanted to send £10,000 in aid. The British denied it as the Queen had only sent £2,000 and didn’t want her to be upstaged - so the Ottomans reduced it down to £1,000.

Context: The French sure a contentious people.

Context: François Claudius Koenigstein, known as Ravachol or the Christ of Anarchy, was a militant French anarchist who championed “propaganda of the deed"—using violence to destabilize the state. He specifically targeted the legal system, bombing the homes of Judge Benoît and Prosecutor Bulot to avenge anarchists beaten and imprisoned after the Clichy riots.

Context: The year 1707 marked the death of Aurangzeb, the last powerful Mughal emperor, after whose reign the empire suffered from succession wars and massive territorial losses to the Maratha Empire. This power vacuum allowed regional governors to break away, turning the once-mighty Mughals into politically weak rulers confined largely to Delhi. Consequently, the empire became increasingly dependent on the British East India Company, eventually transitioning from a sovereign superpower to a British protectorate.

Context: They still squeeze you for all they can.

Context: The Jacobites were supporters of the exiled House of Stuart who fought to restore a monarch to the British throne, while the Jacobins were radical French revolutionaries who sought to abolish the monarchy entirely. In the first panel, Robespierre (the Jacobin) is frustrated to find pro-monarchy Scotsmen instead of anti-king radicals; in the second, Bonnie Prince Charlie (the Jacobite) is horrified to find republican revolutionaries instead of loyalist soldiers.

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