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BRITAIN SUPPORTS US ASSAULT ON VIETNAM 13 June 1965 – Tony Benn comments in his diary regarding the situation in Vietnam that “the Americans are now deciding to invade in full strength and we are left in the embarrassing position of appearing to support them.”
28 SEPTEMBER
REDCOATS SLAUGHTER AMERICAN TROOPS AFTER THEY SURRENDER [ 28 September 1778 ] During the American Revolutionary War, many British officers did not consider those ‘damn’d American rebels’, as they called recruits of George Washington’s Continental Army, to be entitled to the rights normally accorded to combatants in conflict. ROYAL DRAGOONS SHOOT DEAD TWO AS STARVING…
Britain backs escalation of U.S. assault on Vietnam
[ 13 June 1965 ] Today in 1965, Labour MP Tony Benn noted in his diary, regarding the situation in Vietnam, that ‘the Americans are now deciding to invade in full strength and we are left in the embarrassing position of appearing to support them.’1 Washington’s role had previously been limited to deploying military advisers and…
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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…