In 1588, Queen Elizabeth rode to Tilbury and delivered a speech rousing the troops against the Spanish Armada. “I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman,” she declared, “but I have the ...
“Beware the ides of March!” So a soothsayer warned the title character in William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar. But Caesar did not beware and was killed by a group of conspirators on March 15, 44 ...