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28 JUNE
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6 FEBRUARY
BRITAIN SIGNS TREATY WITH MAORIS ONLY TO RENEGE ON IT [ 6 February 1840 ] On this day in 1840, a treaty was signed between representatives of the crown and five hundred Maoris chiefs, which while recognising ultimate British sovereignty over New Zealand, promised in return that “Her Majesty confirmed and guaranteed to the chiefs…
12 NOVEMBER
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27 APRIL
FOLLOWING MASSACRE OF BLACK MUTINEERS – ELEVEN SURVIVORS EXECUTED [ 27 April 1802 ] Fort Shirley at Prince Rupert’s Bay on the British controlled island of Dominica was possibly one of the bleakest and most disease ridden outposts in the Caribbean. MACMILLAN URGES PRESIDENT KENNEDY TO “LIQUIDATE” INDONESIAN PRESIDENT SUKARNO On 27 April 1962, British…
22 JUNE
UK REVERSES ITS POSITION ON GUANTANAMO, ACKNOWLEDGING THIS MIGHT INCREASE THE TERROR THREAT. An internal government memo dated 22 June 2018, leaked to The Daily Telegraph, and marked “Official Sensitive” noted that UK ministers would not oppose the US government sending two British terror suspects, Alexanda Kotey and Shafee El-Sheikh, to Guantanamo, although at the same…
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…