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PLANTATION OVERSEER INVENTS REVOLTING PUNISHMENT FOR A SLAVE [ 28 January 1756 ] We catch a shocking glimpse of some of the sadistic punishments inflicted on slaves through the journals of Thomas Thistlewood, a plantation overseer in the British colony of Jamaica. NEWS BREAKS OF A FAMINE IN BENGAL AND ‘CALAMITIES’ FOR BRITISH INVESTORS […
3 FEBRUARY
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6 JULY
CHURCHILL URGES POISON GAS ATTACKS ON GERMAN CITIES Writing a memo to General Sir Hastings Ismay on 6 July 1944, Winston Churchill urged the Chiefs of Staff to urgently consider the use of poison gas against German towns and cities. A YEMENI CIVIL SERVANT’S BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH BRITAIN’S GUANTANAMO. At about 2 am on 6…
4 JUNE
BRITISH REIGN OF TERROR AT BENARES 4 June 1857 – Colonel James Neill, imposes a reign of terror at Benares after crushing the mutinous Indian soldiers of the 37th Native infantry. He armed civilians so that they could form “volunteer hanging parties”, and so pacify the city with summary and indiscriminate hangings, who’s victims even…
13 JUNE
QUEEN GREETS KILLER TYRANT CEAUSESCU AND AWARDS HIM WITH A KNIGHTHOOD [ 13 June 1978 ] On this day in 1978, at the insistence of Britain’s Labour government, the Queen welcomed Romania’s dictator Nicolae Ceausescu at Buckingham Palace as part of a British effort to encourage the regime to continue to distance itself from Moscow….
18 OCTOBER
BRITISH TROOPS BURN DOWN PEKING’S SUMMER PALACE [ 18 October 1860 ] On this day in 1860 British troops set fire to one of the world’s greatest collections of art work and treasure, the legendary Summer Palace in Peking, also known as the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan). Burning all the buildings which stretched…