Teacher. History, particularly military history. Master of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Researching British Regts in Australia and Fam. Hist. Dog lover. Proud Dad and Pop.
RIP Antione Drouot, Comte Drouot died 24. 3. 1847 in Nancy. An excellent artillery commander, loyal officer and in later life looked after the welfare of veterans. Fought at both Trafalgar and Waterloo.
One of the bigger finds I have made during my work: the report Geoffrey Morton wrote the day after he shot Avraham Stern. Slipped in among the papers of his bodyguard, now in the Imperial War Museum
13 Mar 1811 The Battle of Lissa, Victory of the British frigate squadron over a larger squadron of French and Italian frigates and smaller ships during the Adriatic campaign of the Napoleonic Wars.
This colourisation by @marinamaral2 in 2016 moved me a lot. (#OTD in 1943, innocent Czesława Kwoka, just 14 years old, died in Auschwitz extermination camp. #WW2#HISTORY)
📣New Open Access Article
Unintentional Migration:🍀Irish soldiers demobilised in London after major 18th- and early 19th-century wars were an important but overlooked source of unintentional Irish migrants to the capital.
#migration#historywww.cambridge.org/core/journal...
GNU SIr Terry Pratchett. Your books make me laugh, they make me think, they sometimes make me angry. They always have a simple wisdom. I miss your wit and charm. 8 years gone but never forgotten.
OTD 10 Mar 1788, French naval.officer and Explorer Jean Francois de Galaup, Comte de la Perouse's expedition departed Botany Bay, New South Wales to continue his voyage of exploration of the Pacific. He and his crew were not seen again.
OTD 10 Mar 1908, Scot Alexander Mackay, and Australians Douglas Mawson and Tannant Edgeworth David became the first people to climb Mt Erebrus in Antartica. They went on to be rhe first people to reach the Magnetic South Pole on 19 January 1909.
#OnThisDay 7 March 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte's French invasion of Egypt & Syria captured the city of Jaffa.
Despite previous promises to the city, Napoleon allowed two days of pillaging & ordered the execution of the city's Governor & 2,000 to 4,000 prisoners
First Lady Olena Zelenska declined an invitation to attend Joe Biden's address to the nation because they wanted her to sit next to the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Yulia. 👇
Not really Guy Fawkes Night, which is not celebrated in Oz any more, but I thought this photo from Kapunda, South Australia was interesting. I am guessing taken 1899-1902.
