I would love to for the adventure, but wouldn't leave my family behind. Also the more I've learned about the hideous diseases and unsanitary conditions of the time, the more I think I'm a lot safer reading and imagining!
yes, definitely
Yes I would.
No, I was a history teacher for many years and no matter the time in history, I always said that God knew when to put me. I would be a fly on the wall to witness historic events but not live in the time. Sanitation,disease,and lack of cleanliness would do me in.
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October, 1740 - Jamie is flogged at Ft. William (Virgins)
October 18-20, 1743 - Witch trial at Cranesmuir; Jamie learns the truth about Claire (OUTLANDER)
October 26, 1760 - Following King George II's funeral, Lord John receives a dachshund puppy from Stephan von Namtzen.
October 1, 1768 - The Incident of the Snake in the Privy (DRUMS OF AUTUMN)
Late October 1770 - The Gathering; Roger and Bree are married (FIERY CROSS)
October 1772 - Ian comes back from the Kahnyen'kehaka (FIERY CROSS)
October 9, 1773 - Claire is abducted, and raped several days later (ABOSAA)
October, 1773 - amie and the others rescue Claire from her abductors; Jamie kills Arvin Hodgepile; Roger kills Harley Boble (ABOSAA)
October, 1776 - William travels to Quebec, accompanied by Denys Randall-Isaacs (ECHO)
October 7, 1777 - Jamie shoots William's hat off his head during a battle at Saratoga; General Simon Fraser is mortally wounded (ECHO)
October 17, 1777 - William is among the British troops who surrender at Saratoga (ECHO)
October, 1778 - Dottie learns she is pregnant (MOHB)
October 9, 1779 - Roger acts as a battlefield chaplain during the Battle of Savannah.
October 7, 1780 - Jamie is badly injured during the Battle of Kings Mountain and nearly dies.
October 20, 1918 - Claire is born (OUTLANDER)
October 31, 1941 - Roger's father's plane goes down near a stone circle in Northumbria (ECHO, "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows")
October, 1980 - Bree and Roger and Jemmy and Mandy are living at Lallybroch (too many events to list here) (ECHO)
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