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TIL - during her reign Queen Victoria survived eight assassination attempts

Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria - Historic UK

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"...frustrated at Britain’s attempts to help Ireland during the Irish famine..."
lol. was this written by an English aristocrat?
- It is a UK history site that open with this:
  Queen Victoria had a majestic sixty-three-year reign... (majestic despite 1-2 million irish starving to death, the majority a direct result of British government policy to use the famine to reform the Irish)
  So I don't expect anything close to historical balance.
- Just like Soviets helped Ukraine in the 30s, eh
It's missing that the definition of "help" there is "help themselves to Irish land"
… He made his way up to the front of the large crowd and pulled the trigger of his pistol, but it failed to fire. This was because instead of it being loaded with bullets it was loaded with bits of tobacco. After the attack he was sentenced to 18 months hard labour.
I wonder if he had put gunpowder in his pipe also.