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18 SEPTEMBER
GENERAL AUTHORISES USE OF ARAB HOSTAGES TO PROTECT ARMY CONVOYS [ 18 September 1936 ] On 18 September 1936, Lieutenant General John Dill, who had arrived in Jerusalem five days earlier to take command of British forces in Palestine, informed Sir Cyril Deverell, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, that he intended to use…
21 MAY
LORD MANSFIELD – THROWING SLAVES OVERBOARD CANNOT BE MURDER. [ This piece has had its date changed to 22 May ] 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…
29 SEPTEMBER
BURNING AND INDISCRIMINATE MURDER AT ISTALIF [29 September 1842 ] On this day in 1842, a retribution expedition under the command of Major General McCaskill entered the Afghan town of Istalif, forty miles north of Kabul. It has been one of the first towns to participate in an anti-British insurgency which had ultimately led to…
UDA remains legal despite murders and illegal arms stockpiles
31 January 1973 On 31 January 1973, the Daily Telegraph quoted Ulster Defence Association leader Tommy Herron admitting that ‘it is futile for us to try to stop them,’ referring to murders by Protestant loyalists. He explained that this was because ‘the renewed bombing onslaught by the Republican rebels is a provocation to them (and) they (Protestant…
7 JULY
FOREIGN OFFICE WARNED NOT TO DISCLOSE DATA WHICH MIGHT BE USED AGAINST THE UK. [ 7 July 1975 ] On this day in 1975, John Hickman, an official at the British embassy in Dublin, wrote to Bill Harding at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, warning him that statistics on the relative number of Catholics and…
26 AUGUST
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