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Saturday, 14 July 2012
Hanoverians at the Siege - Gibraltar 1779-83
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Extracted from "Geschichte de churhannoverschen Truppen in Gibraltar, Minorca und Ostindien" by Ernst von dem Knesebeck, published...
Friday, 12 August 2011
Red City - the Mutinies of Semarang
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Semarang in Indonesia is now known locally as the Red City, after it´s Communist links. It was where Dutch immigrants started the local Comm...
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Hanoverian Standoff - the Maidstone affair of 1756
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On Monday 13th September 1756 a German soldier walked into a shop in Maidstone, Kent, to buy some handkerchiefs. What happened next helped b...
Sunday, 19 June 2011
The Raid on Havre de Grace 1813
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In May 1813 a small squadron of frigates under George Cockburn* was cruising the coast between Baltimore and Canada, with the dual aims of c...
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