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The Necessity of Atheism is a pamphlet published anonymously in 1811 by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley while he was an undergraduate at University College, Oxford. The pamphlet argued that the existence of God could not be proven through empirical evidence or reason, challenging the...
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Landmark Shelley argument for freethought; historically daring and concise, though philosophically youthful and less rigorous than later atheistic works.
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The Battle of Albuera was fought in southern Spain on 16 May 1811 during the Peninsular War. An Allied army containing British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposed a French force commanded by Marshal Nicolas Soult. The battle was exceptionally costly for both sides, and although the French withdr...
