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Before Gloise and HMS Warrior, there was Napoleon (1850), the first steam-powered ship of the line.
A massively neglected transitory battleship between the era of experimental steam sloops of war of the 1840s and the iron-hulled warships and ironclads of the 1860s.
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Battle of Waireka, 1st Taranaki War.
Five settlers were massacred, so troops went out to bring outer settlers to safety. Battle ensued, the militia were trapped at a farm below the Pah. The army troops withdrew, leaving the militia, and Captain Cracroft's sailors saved the day.
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HMS Africa after fighting half of the Franco-Spanish fleet solo at Trafalgar (and won):
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Nelson’s prayer before Trafalgar. The last record, but one, that he made in his diary.
“May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory; and may no misconduct in anyone tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet. For myself individually, I commit my life to Him that made me, and may His blessing alight on my endeavours for serving my country faithfully. To Him I resign myself, and the just cause which is entrusted to me to defend. Amen, Amen, Amen.”
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Rally against the sale of Hyde Park Barracks Paddington UPDATE! New location -please share
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#OTD 18 Oct 1880, The Times publishes a letter from Charles Boycott. The chain of events that it began would introduce a new word into the English language…
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Real images of human beings, from the Revolutionary War, seen by human eyes, processed by human brains, and drawn by human hands, are infinitely more valuable than AI produced images could ever be.
An American Rifleman, drawn by British officer Richard Mansergh St. George. 1/
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Argentinians often try to portray the Falklands invasion as deliberetely harmless. The junta pushed a "bloodless invasion" narrative to fool the world. But behind the propaganda, the 1982 occupation was defined by terror, looting, and systemic abuse of civilians.
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It is the 15th of October, 1857 ( and in Kotah, Major Charles Burton & his two sons are besieged & murdered in their home. They were attacked by the troops of the Maharao of Kotah, who was powerless to stop them from attacking a man he called his friend.
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"The Natives of this Country are of middle Stature straight bodied and slender-limb'd, their skins the Colour of Wood soot or of a dark chocolate their hair mostly black, some lank and others curled, they all wear it crop'd short, their Beards which are generally black they likewise crop short or singe off. Their features are far from being disagreeable and their voices are soft and tunable. They go quite naked both men and women without any manner of Cloathing whatever, even the women do not so much as cover their privities. Altho none of us were ever very near any of their women, one Gentlemen excepted, yet we are all as well satisfied of this as if we had lived among them." — Journal of the First Voyage of Captain Cook 🇬🇧 August 1770
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Charles Heaphy of the Auckland Rifle Volunteers became the first soldier in a Colonial regiment to win the VC for his actions at Waiari.
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I've run into a similar description, but for colonial Australia as a whole, in 'Sinosphere Australia' that is similarly ridiculous. A 'multiculture settler colony' is defined here as the presence of multiple languages, besides English. Nevermind the overwhelming British pop.
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New video!!
On early American contacts in Polynesia and Fiji 🇺🇸🥥🌴
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True to his metradamus nature, the metanician; MetaBritain, has cracked opened The Metronomicon to impart some insight ascendent of subtext.
Meta Gear Solid:
A social, political and technological commentary
Article for 01/10/26, by @MetaBritain
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