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17 AUGUST
GENERAL GASELEE SANCTIONS AN ORGY OF LOOTING IN PEKING [ 17 August 1900 ] On 17 August 1900, Major General Alfred Gaselee issued an order licensing the ransacking of Peking. Gaselee was the commanding officer of a British and Allied expeditionary force. It had arrived in the city just in time to relieve the diplomatic…
19 MARCH
312 PARAS INVADE THE SMALL CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF ANGUILLA [ 19 March 1969 ] In February 1967, the British government had allowed the Caribbean island of Anguilla a degree of self-government on condition that it accepted a subservient status as an associated state of the larger island of St. Kitts, 112 miles away. THE RAF…
24 JUNE
THE BRITISH STAGE A COUP IN SHARJAH. 24 June 1965 – The British orchestrated a coup in the emirate of Sharjah to remove Sheikh Saqr, who was considered to have too great an interest in independent development and had even allowed the Arab League to have a role in the small kingdom’s decision making, at…
9 DECEMBER
THOUSANDS MURDERED AFTER BRITISH LED IMPERIAL ARMY TAKES SUZHOU [ 9 December 1863 ] On this day in 1863, thousands of men and women in the Chinese rebel city of Suzhou were massacred, four days after the town was seized by British and imperial Chinese forces. . . MASSACRE REPORT WHITEWASHES ROLE OF BRITISH ARMY…
14 JUNE
BRITISH CAPTAIN TORTURES AND EXECUTES MAU MAU SUSPECTS 14 June 1953 – On 13 June, Captain Gerald S.L. Griffiths had led a company of British soldiers into the Chuka region of Kenya to flush out Kenyan Mau Mau rebels hiding in the forests. Two Mau Mau suspects, Njeru Ndwega and Kvenji Njoka, were handed over…
22 AUGUST
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