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7 DECEMBER
RELIEF WORKS FOR FAMINE STRUCK IRISH VILLAGERS SUSPENDED [ 7 December 1846 ] In December 1846 Ireland was in the grip of a potato famine as well as one of the worst winters in many years and wherever a few people could be offered employment at a local public works, it provided the sole possible…
1900-1919 | Collective punishments | Demolishing villages | Punitive operations | Uncategorized | Yemen
A ‘punitive expedition destroys Kotaibi villages in Yemen
[ 2 November 1903 ] Following an attack by the Kotaibis on a British military outpost at Sulaik in Aden (today part of Yemen), an expedition composed of 600 soldiers of the Royal Hampshire Regiment and the 23rd Bombay Rifles under the command of General Maitland set off in to the hills on 30th October…
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…
5 AUGUST
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19 JANUARY
THE FIRST CONVICTS ARRIVE AT BOTANY BAY [ 19 January 1788 ] On this day in 1788, the first batch of British convicts, about 498 men in three ships, arrived at Botany Bay, on the remote south eastern coast of Australia. BRITISH NAVAL SHIPS REDUCE ADEN TO RUBBLE [ 19 January 1839 ] On the…
13 APRIL
BRITISH ARMY LOOTS AND BURNS THE ETHIOPIAN CITY OF MAQDALA. [ 13 April 1868 ] Today in 1868, after slaughtering the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros’s army three days earlier, 12,000 British troops, under Lieutenant-General Robert Napier, seized the fortress city of Maqdala. GENERAL DYER ORDERS THE KILLING OF HUNDREDS OF UNARMED INDIAN PROTESTERS [ 13 April…