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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!

https://t.co/GjCGWfDC9h

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@demarcation2512 Digging a tunnel to escape is fair play. Remaining in England after promising to return would be a disgrace.

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@WASPZoomer I have always felt bad for people who cannot respect their enemies.

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@DylanFiver69 I do original videos on settler colonialism and the British Empire, here's one about Australia and New Zealand in the early years of settlement. You may enjoy it.

https://t.co/cyYU9utc1y

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@charlottecholey Real history.

[Zoomer @ZoomerHistorian]

The British are a global race 🇬🇧

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@salingerdoc @lowlandsapien This was an entry-level beer in the England of my teenage years. It was one of the cheapest available in British off-licences. I have fond, but not-too-proud, memories of buying a four-pack for my mates because I was the only one with stubble on my chin at the age of 15.

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The Cenotaphs of:
Bulawayo
Penang
Hobart
Wellington

Each erected by a people scattered over the earth.

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@MrsColdArrow Maybe we should have listened to Wilson. Not often I'll say that.

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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.

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@Simon_Gleaden It's an excellent question. I've visited the bunker from which General Percival emerged to surrender to the Japanese. It's very well maintained and the tour was informative. I can't say I sensed any bitterness from the museum staff at least but hard to judge as a visitor.

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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.”

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@dr_wendym_RN It's a beautiful replica, I'd love to it in person. There's a really horrible motorised "replica" in Whitby, England, an absolute disgrace next to this.

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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.

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#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.

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@NetNinja01 @_Treasure_Kings Seems fair to me.

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@NetNinja01 @_Treasure_Kings This is where I got my information
https://t.co/GdcomwpTup

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@NetNinja01 @_Treasure_Kings Nothing. Found treasure must be reported, it's value and cultural significance is then assessed. If a museum wants it then the a reward has to be paid to the finder and to the land owner (assuming those are different people). If no museum wants it then the finder keeps it.

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@SegfaultMax @_Treasure_Kings You don't need a license to do metal detecting in the UK, in fact, the law is far more permissive of this hobby in Britain than in many other countries which is why we get interesting finds made by amateurs treasure hunters.

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@MasterVril @ErrolTostigson Maybe "elite" is putting too fine a point on it, a minority interest at any rate. Sidney Silverman, who introduced many bills contributing to the death of British hanging, was the son of Romanian immigrants.

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You are right, he was born on the 27th of October Old Style, and 7th of November New Style. We officially switched to the Georgian Calendar in 1752 when Cook was a young man, but at the moment of his birth an Englishman (but not most other Europeans) would have given his birth at the 27th of October.

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Happy Birthday Captain Cook
Staithes, Yorkshire, where the young James Cook was apprenticed to a shopkeeper before turning his ambitions to the sea:

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@andrewc44104127 Portuguese were our allies at the Battle of Bussaco