Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | August 15, 2016–August 21, 2016

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Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.

Georgy_K_Zhukov
dandan_noodles

Not one to toot my own horn, but my post on how Robert E. Lee became a hardcore Confederate nationalist and what made a good Early Modern general dropped at like midnight. Second contains great discussion of change vs continuity in the wars following 1792, courtesy of /u/ErzherzogKarl

HatMaster12

/u/Rhodis gave an excellent response about [the daily lives of the Knights of Malta] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4ypqcw/if_i_was_a_knight_of_malta_fighting_in_the/)