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“NO QUARTER BOYS !” – REDCOATS TAKE NO ZULU PRISONERS. [ 29 March 1879 ] Today in 1879, British cavalry and troops massacred hundreds of fleeing and wounded Zulu warriors at Kambula who had been fighting to defend their homeland, from a British invasion.  MINISTER WARNS AGAINST ‘INTERFERENCE’ IN NAZI GERMANY’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS [ 29…

ROYAL NAVY DESTROYS LAGOS – ‘AN IMMENSE NUMBER OF NATIVES BEING KILLED’ [ 26 December 1851 ] On 26 December 1851, British naval vessels began a three day bombardment of the coastal town of Lagos on the west coast of Africa, reducing it to rubble, at a cost, to quote a British press report, of ‘an…

BRITISH ARMY AGREES TO ALLOW PROTESTANT PARAMILITARIES TO PATROL WITH THEM. 3 July 1072 – After negotiations between the Ulster Defence Associaton, with its known links to Loyalist terrorism, the British army agreed to allow Protestant paramiliataries armed with batons and clubs to patrol alongside them in the mixed Catholic-Protestant neighbourhood around March Street and…

CHURCHILL ADVOCATES A NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST MOSCOW. On 8 August 1946, over lunch with his physician Lord Moran at Chartwell, Winston Churchill enthusiastically answered Moran’s question regarding how a nuclear war might be waged against the Soviet Union.  “We ought not to wait until Russia is ready,” Churchill explained, adding “America knows that fifty-two per…

MILITARY COURTS ALLOWED TO ORDER THE FLOGGING OF CHILDREN [ 17 February 1939 ] On 17 February 1939, the British run mandate government in Palestine introduced a law allowing military courts to order the whipping of children ‘with a light rod or cane or birch,’ of up to twenty four strokes. CALLAGHAN – ‘I WON’T…