Tom Holland

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The Rest Is History · 705. Queen Victoria’s Revenge: The Mad Emperor of Abyssinia (Part 1) · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

I'll be damned. voice-verified

Why, there's been uproar in Parliament Our gracious Queen writing letters a penny or more on the income tax voice-verified

It's true. voice-verified

So that is from a memoir by one of Victorian Britain's most decorated officers, General Sahari Flashman VC, recalling his part in what he, in his memoir, calls the strangest campaign in the history of British Arms. voice-verified

And this is the subject of today's episode and our next episode: the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868. voice-verified

And I think it's fair to say that. voice-verified

That this isn't an expedition that is particularly well known, not one of the kind of the classic Victorian expeditions, but it is a banger. voice-verified

Uh, and if you go to pretty much any of Britain's leading museums, so the British Museum, the British Library, the VA, the Bodleian, you will find uh manuscripts or relics or voice-verified

jewels or treasures that were brought back to Britain from this expedition. voice-verified

And Dominic, we get complaints sometimes, don't we, from Canadian listeners that we don't have enough mentions of Canada on this podcast. voice-verified

But I gather that some of this loot even found its way to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. voice-verified

I mean I don't want to rain on the parade, but obviously this is from a novel. voice-verified

Flashman isn't real. voice-verified

He's an invented character by George MacDonald Fraser for the avoidance of any doubt. voice-verified

But how much of this exaggerated? voice-verified

How much is true, do we think? voice-verified

Do you think this inspired him in his novels? voice-verified

Because as I remember I read some of them. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

They were always kind of with Clive to Calcutta, with Hannibal across the Alps, all that kind of stuff. voice-verified

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