He might have, you know, *studied the period records *like a historian does. Maybe because he is a noted historian?
But if a definitive answer was to be found there, then he wouldn’t be speculating, would he ? He could authoritatively state “yup, that’s the truth and here’s my cite, hope you can read Spanish”. *Speculating *that they might have been… I’m no noted historian, but I know my weasel words !
I came in to mention Pavlov’s House, one of the most bad ass events in history.