9 AUGUST

LORD CORNWALLIS EXPELS HIS BLACK TROOPS FROM YORKTOWN [ 14 October 1781 ] In October 1781, the British army at Yorktown in Virginia was besieged by American rebels and French troops and rapidly running out of supplies.  UK AMBASSADOR ON OUR ‘FRIENDLY’ BUT ‘BARBARIC’ SAUDI ALLY [ 14 October 1964 ] On 14 October 1964,…

THE UK’S REFUSAL TO PROSCRIBE THE UDA TERROR ORGANISATION RIDICULED 19 December 1980 – An article appeared in the New York Daily News, based on a telephone conversation with Sam Duddy, the press relations officer of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the largest Loyalist paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland. The journalist, Michael Daly expressed his…

CHURCHILL – “PRIMITIVE MILLIONS OF INDIA” MUST REMAIN UNDER BRITISH RULE [ 2 February 1931 ] Speaking to a crowd in Liverpool on this day in 1931, Winston Churchill expressed his fear and indignation that Britain might ‘loose’ India. CHURCHILL – THE HINDU-MUSLIM FEUD A BULWARK OF BRITISH RULE IN INDIA [ 2 February 1940…

BRITISH WITNESS GIVES HARROWING ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF INDIAN MUTINEERS AT AHMEDABAD 26 October 1857 – A British witness gave a graphic account of the bloody aftermath of the execution, by being blown apart by cannon, of Indian mutineers at Ahmedabad. It was subsequently published in several British newspapers. “I walked straight to the…

PAUL BOGLE HUNG FOR DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR BLACK JAMAICANS [ 24 October 1865 ] Today in 1865, Paul Bogle, a Baptist deacon and the leader of a workers revolt in Jamaica known as the Morant Bay Rebellion, was hung by the British. TWO IRAQI VILLAGES FLATTENED AFTER THEY REFUSE TO PAY FINES [ 24 October…

  UNGRATEFUL SHEIKH SHAKHBUT DEPOSED BY BRITISH LED COUP. 6 August 1966 – The British deposed Sheikh Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi in a military coup because he was failing to reward British military support by spending enough on British goods, although in the words of historians the serious problem his prudence presented has been more…