relatives

FBI: "... utter depravity."

Casselians

 

1935 pre WWII take on Cassel here. All soon vaporized by allied bombing.

medieval castle builders

 

eponymous

 

ached for throne proximity

"He could twist a nail into a cork-screw."
- On Lord Louis Mountbatten [1900-1979]

dirty, vulgar, smelly

 "85% of the medieval village weren't allowed into the castle as they were considered peasants."

Cassell's Household Book

Read the 1869 edition here.

victory

"Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another."
- Winston Churchill [1874-1965]

epic failure until he wasn't

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

quality and quantity

"He wrote more words than Shakespeare and Dickens combined."
- On Winston Churchill, who was advised by Ernest Cassel to write to pay the bills

In 1926 the thousand year old spelling of Cassel was changed to Kassel; 85% of the city with that name in central Germany was destroyed in WWII.

Prussia

David Frum on Prussia's lost history here.

Battle of Cassel

The Battle of Cassel was fought on April 11, 1677, as a part of the Franco-Dutch War. It resulted in a French victory under Philippe I of Orléans, assisted by the Duke of Humières and Marshal Luxembourg, against the Dutch under William III of Orange, stadtholder of the Netherlands. The battle took place near the city of Cassel, 30 km south of Dunkirk in present-day France. Source here.

grim and gay

In fifty years, when peace outshines
Remembrance of the battle lines,
Adventurous lads will sigh and cast
Proud looks upon the plundered past.
On summer morn or winter's night,
Their hearts will kindle for the fight,
Reading a snatch of soldier-song,
Savage and jaunty, fierce and strong;
And through the angry marching rhymes
Of blind regret and haggard mirth,
They'll envy us the dazzling times
When sacrifice absolved our earth.

Some ancient man with silver locks
Will lift his weary face to say:
'War was a fiend who stopped our clocks
Although we met him grim and gay.'
And then he'll speak of Haig's last drive,
Marvelling that any came alive
Out of the shambles that men built
And smashed, to cleanse the world of guilt.
But the boys, with grin and sidelong glance,
Will think, 'Poor grandad's day is done.'
And dream of lads who fought in France
And lived in time to share the fun.
- Siegfried Sassoon [1886-1967] was treated at the Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorder or shell-shock.

Thousand Year Fest

CASS-ul

Matthew Brennan Cassel [born May 17, 1982 in Northridge, California] is an American football quarterback and current starter for the New England Patriots of the NFL.

Player and Team stats + Team Standings.

Cassel in Ontario

Frequency per million of the surname Cassel in top 5 countries via Public Profiler:

SWEDEN 32.86
UNITED STATES 21.71
GERMANY 10.9
FRANCE 9.42
CANADA 3.67

1958

Becas soups made with wine for the special occasion.
Shark's Fin - Chinese Bird's Nest - Real Turtle - Genuine Kangaroo Tail - Clear Oxtail

Bender & Cassel Ltd. 74 Brewery Road, London, N.7.

Other period ads here.

The Right Honorable Sir Ernest Cassel

In 1902, Cassel became King Edward VII's private financial advisor and treasurer. His granddaughter Edwina married Lord Louis Mountbatten whose nephew Prince Philip married Princess Elizabeth.

The Cassel Hospital was founded in 1921 for WWI psychological casualties.