BRITISH TROOPS SEIZE MOSUL TO GAIN CONTROL OVER THE OIL FIELDS [ 3 November 1918 ] on 3 November 1918, four days after an armistice with Germany’s First World War ally Turkey had brought to an end hostilities in the near east, the British army in Mesopotamia, acting under direct orders from Prime Minister Lloyd…
HARROWING ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF INDIAN MUTINEERS PUBLISHED [ 26 October 1857 ] Today in 1857, a graphic account was published of the bloody aftermath of an execution in which Indian rebels at Ahmedabad were blown apart by cannon. It was one of many instances of exemplary punitive executions carried out during Britain’s suppression…
SUSPECT INSURGENT HUNG DESPITE EVIDENCE HIS CONFESSION WAS EXTRACTED UNDER TORTURE [ 14 July 1953 ] Today in 1953, Kenyan national Ngungire Njora, aged twenty two, was among five young men hung at Nairobi prison. He had been a suspect in the killing of two British settlers and was sentenced to death by a colonial…
