7 FEBRUARY

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  BRITISH TROOPS SACK SAN SEBASTIAN, RAPING MANY OF THE WOMEN. [ 1 September 1813 ] [ Some of the fires and killings may have started on 31 August ] On this day in 1813, British troops, under the command of the legendary Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington, ransacked and burned the Basque city of…

DOUGLAS-HOME LIES ABOUT BRITISH BACKED TERROR OPERATIONS IN YEMEN. 21 July 1964 – British prime minister Alec Douglas-Home assured the House of Commons that “our policy is one of non-involvement in the civil war in the Yemen.” As historians Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac observe, “this was simply not true.”(1) The British government was…

BRITISH OFFICER – “I NEVER SAW SUCH BUTCHERY AND MURDER.” [ 21 February 1849 ] On 21 February 1849, during the Second Anglo-Sikh War, British troops under the command of Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Gough gave no quarter to Sikh soldiers fleeing the battlefield of Gujrat. BRITISH TROOPS IN CAIRO SHOOT DEAD TWENTY “RIOTERS” WITH…