28 MAY
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11 DECEMBER
BRITISH “BLACK AND TANS” AUXILIARY POLICE SACK THE CITY OF CORK. During a few hours of indiscriminate arson and looting, on the evening of Saturday 11 December 1920, the British Black and Tans auxiliary police force burned down three hundred homes and forty business premises in the city of Cork where the vast majority of…
26 JULY
BRITISH SOLDIERS OPEN FIRE ON DUBLIN CROWD AFTER CHILDREN THROW ORANGE PEEL On the evening of Sunday 26 July 1914 three Dubliners were shot dead by British troops on Bachelor Street. They were Mary Duffy, a 50 year old widow, Patrick Quinn, a coal labourer and father of six, and James Brennan, an eighteen year…
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28 DECEMBER
BRITISH BOMBARD CANTON TO PROTECT THEIR OPIUM TRADE [ 28 December 1857 ] On 28 December 1857, twenty five British and French gunboats commenced a heavy bombardment of the Chinese port city of Canton. Prime Minister William Gladstone had dispatched a punitive military expedition, after a Chinese owned and crewed pirate ship, flying a British…
30 JULY
WOMEN ACQUITTED OF DAMAGING AIRCRAFT ON GROUNDS OF PREVENTING A GREATER CRIME. [ 30 July 1996 ] On this day in 1996, four women were acquitted by a Liverpool court of causing £1.5 million damage to Hawk ground attack aircraft which were to be sold to Indonesia, then under the brutal grip of the Suharto…
Inglorious moments deleted from mainstream history – A daily reminder of how Britain has always acted ruthlessly to deter dissent and democracy. “The reason why the sun never sets on the British Empire is because God doesn’t trust the British in the dark“ — Anon Please return regularly as I continue to post more day…
20 JUNE
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