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Your latest grand colonial Adventure has arrived!
This video tells the violent, tragic, deadly voyage of the American sealing ship General Gates.
American captain Riggs smuggled Convicts out of Sydney and took them to New Zealand. There, the convicts soon wished they had stayed in Australia as they met abuse at the hands of the Yankee captain and death (and cannibalism) at the hands of the Maori.
Cockney thieves, escaped convicts, Melvillesque Yankees, adventurous seaman and Maori warriors; what more do you want?! Watch it now!
youtu.be/Bsw5PQkJYWs
Once upon a time it was possible to imagine a future of 1 BILLION Anglo-Saxons with the implication of total world domination.
This was written by an American in 1981, by the way.
This isn't meant to stroke anyone's ego.
I don't understand why this type of thing is always portrayed as a big shocking reveal. Every general history of the Great War I've ever read mentions this fact, it's not a secret.
Dass über den Waffenstillstand vom 11. November 1918 hinaus die Briten ihre Hungerblockade gegen Deutschland aufrecht erhielten und sogar noch verschärften, weil sie nun auch noch die Ostsee kontrollierten, hatte ich bis vor kurzem noch nie gehört. Erst am 12. Juli 1919 wurde sie aufgehoben, nachdem man die Deutschen zum Friedensvertrag von Versailles gezwungen hatte.
Folge @GanzeGeschichte für mehr!
Why "one-off"?
Athelstan Day
Trafalgar Day
Restoration Day
And drop the term "bank holiday", we're a nation not a college of banking enthusiasts.
National Festivals.
With calls for a bank holiday to mark 1,100 years since Athelstan was made the first king of a unified England, people in England tend to support a one-off bank holiday for the occasion
🏴 49% support / 21% oppose
🏴 32% / 32%
🏴 19% / 43%
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OTD, November 11th 1813, 1200 British and Canadian soldiers defeated an invading army of 3000 Americans at Crysler's Farm in Upper Canada.
Despite the death of Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames only a month before, Crysler's Farm was the absolute nadir of American fortunes on land in the War of 1812 and one of a series of defensive victories for the British Empire that ensured the future of a British Canada.
The Americans would come back stronger and much better led the next year. Nonetheless, Canada too would be reinforced, the numerical advantage would never again be so great again for the Americans and their last best chance to take Canada was already lost.
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One will sometimes hear quite extravagant claims about the unwillingness of historical people to wash. Well, here's the 18th century British poor. Essentials? Soap.
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‘War is the harvest of a sailor, in which he is to store provisions for the winter of old age.’ - Sir John Barnard
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Oppressed Scot Richard Oswald made sure his West African slave colony had a golf course and wanted to bring Chinese labour to 18th century Western Scotland (possibly earliest proposal for non-European immigration to Britain?).
Incidentally, he is one of the British figures missing from Benjamin Wests' Treaty of Paris.
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The Cenotaphs of:
Bulawayo
Penang
Hobart
Wellington
Each erected by a people scattered over the earth.
Singapore Cenotaph, completed in 1922 based on the London model to remember the war dead of the Straits Settlements.
Interesting that war-time President of France Clemenceau was present for the laying of the foundation stone. I believe he was just passing through.
England's last continental conquest. It's often seen as a quixotic venture, but in the 17th century Dunkirk was a major base of Flemish piracy against shipping in the English channel so putting an English garrison there had some sense to it.
#OnThisDay in 1659, France and Spain signed the Treaty of the Pyrenees, ending 24 years of war.
The agreement marked Spain’s decline and France’s rise, while dividing Catalonia between the two kingdoms and establishing a border that largely survives today, 367 years later.
While Britain sleeps, it's already Remembrance Sunday in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Cenotaph is almost identical to the one in London.
The Chinese inscription reads,
“The heroic soul is immortal; the noble spirit lives on forever.”
Happy Birthday Captain Cook
Staithes, Yorkshire, where the young James Cook was apprenticed to a shopkeeper before turning his ambitions to the sea:
Remember, remember! The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
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