the year after 1977
British troops are massacred whilst trying to retreat from Afghanistan.
1842
In the 1800s, the British controlled India, and the Russians, to the north, had their own designs on southern Asia ..
The British Are Forced to Flee...
Sir William McNaghten, who had been trying to negotiate a way out of the city, was murdered on December 23, 1841, reportedly by Muhammad Akbar Khan himself. The British, their situation hopeless, somehow managed to negotiate a treaty to leave Afghanistan.
On January 6, 1842, the British began their withdrawal from Kabul. Leaving the city were 4,500 British troops and 12,000 civilians who had followed the British Army to Kabul. The plan was to march to Jalalabad, about 90 miles away.
The retreat in the brutally cold weather took an immediate toll, and many died from exposure in the first days. And despite the treaty, the British column came under attack when it reached a mountain pass, the Khurd Kabul. The retreat became a massacre (4,500 British troops and 12,000 civilians).
1842
In the 1800s, the British controlled India, and the Russians, to the north, had their own designs on southern Asia ..
The British Are Forced to Flee...
Sir William McNaghten, who had been trying to negotiate a way out of the city, was murdered on December 23, 1841, reportedly by Muhammad Akbar Khan himself. The British, their situation hopeless, somehow managed to negotiate a treaty to leave Afghanistan.
On January 6, 1842, the British began their withdrawal from Kabul. Leaving the city were 4,500 British troops and 12,000 civilians who had followed the British Army to Kabul. The plan was to march to Jalalabad, about 90 miles away.
The retreat in the brutally cold weather took an immediate toll, and many died from exposure in the first days. And despite the treaty, the British column came under attack when it reached a mountain pass, the Khurd Kabul. The retreat became a massacre (4,500 British troops and 12,000 civilians).
Slaughter in the Mountain Passes
A magazine based in Boston, the North American Review, published a remarkably extensive and timely account titled “The English in Afghanistan” six months later, in July 1842. It contained this vivid description (some antiquated spellings have been left intact):
On the 6th of January, 1842, the Caboul forces commenced their retreat through the dismal pass, destined to be their grave. On the third day they were attacked by the mountaineers from all points, and a fearful slaughter ensued…
The troops kept on, and awful scenes ensued. Without food, mangled and cut to pieces, each one caring only for himself, all subordination had fled; and the soldiers of the forty-fourth English regiment are reported to have knocked down their officers with the butts of their muskets.
On the 13th of January, just seven days after the retreat commenced, one man, bloody and torn, mounted on a miserable pony, and pursued by horsemen, was seen riding furiously across the plains to Jellalabad. That was Dr. Brydon, the sole person to tell the tale of the passage of Khourd Caboul.
More than 16,000 people had set out on the retreat from Kabul, and in the end only one man, Dr. William Brydon, a British Army surgeon, had made it alive to Jalalabad. The garrison there lit signal fires and sounded bugles to guide other British survivors to safety, but after several days they realized that Brydon would be the only one. It was believed the Afghans let him live so he could tell the grisly story.
A Severe Blow to British Pride
The loss of so many troops to mountain tribesmen was, of course, a bitter humiliation for the British. With Kabul lost, a campaign was mounted to evacuate the rest of the British troops from garrisons in Afghanistan, and the British then withdrew from the country entirely.
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1446, it was in this year (which we all knew anyway) that Murad II invaded Attica, forcing Constantine XI to return Thebes to the duchy of Athens and remove the tribute imposed in 1444.
If you don't know your 1446 history then what the fuck do you know?
If you don't know your 1446 history then what the fuck do you know?
Year my mom was born.
The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
your mum is pretty old tbh
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March 20 – The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.
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Every single time I've checked, theres been some massive fire that caused a shitload of damage.
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الشعب يريد اسقاط النظام
...show me the schematic
...show me the schematic
JFK assassination
The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
*John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
1746 - The wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act
1746 - The wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act
Oh look at how many days I've been registered. 1963, it may have been 1962 4 hours ago but that is 'cause I didn't get on the computer to register on BF2s.
The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
Beginning of 16th century of the Islamic Hijri calendar
$17.50 - it's what i paid OH to ban me. he said he was holding out for $20, and now i'm stuck because i spent it on an envelope and stamp.
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221
June 26 (my birthday!), 221 – Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
221
June 26 (my birthday!), 221 – Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
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for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
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