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13 SEPTEMBER
BRITISH TROOPS ADVANCING ON KABUL EXECUTE ALL MALES OVER 14 YEARS OLD [ 13 September 1842 ] On this day in 1842, having defeated Afghan forces ranged against them at Tezin Pass, the victorious British troops began several days of appalling retribution against Afghan villagers for the massacre nine months earlier of a British army of…
23 JANUARY
HUNDREDS OF WOUNDED ZULU WARRIORS SLAUGHTERED AT RORKE’S DRIFT [ 23 January 1879 ] On this day in 1879 hundreds of Zulu warriors, injured during the battle at Rorke’s Drift the previous day, were murdered by victorious British troops. Please feel welcome to post comments below. If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2019 Alisdare…
15 AUGUST
BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT IN COVERT ARMS AIRLIFT TO NIGERIAN JUNTA [ 15 August 1967 ] Today in 1967, the Birmingham Post broke the news that hangar number two at Birmingham Airport was being used to store a consignment of 186 cases of rifles which was due to be airlifted to the Nigerian junta. The federal government’s…
7 JANUARY
TOP CIVIL SERVANT – END OF EMPIRE MEANS ‘WE SHALL STARVE’ [ 7 January 1953 ] On 7 January 1953, Evelyn Shuckburgh, the Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, noted gloomily in his diary: Please feel welcome to post comments below. If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2019 Alisdare Hickson All…
22 MAY
LORD MANSFIELD – THROWING SLAVES OVERBOARD CANNOT BE MURDER. [ 22 May 1783 ] On this day in 1783, Lord Mansfied, the presiding judge at an appeal hearing, issued his verdict on the case of 132 men, women and children thrown overboard from a British owned slave ship, the Zong, on 29 November 1871. It…
3 JULY
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…