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@thehistoryguy
Apr 22, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Camden. The reburial parade begins.

En route to the church for the funeral service. Image
Men of the Royal Regiment of Scotland carry one of their forebears on his final journey.
When I talked to the Sgt Major O’Neill of the 2nd Bn, Royal Scots, he reminded me that they all know what it’s like to bury a comrade and they wanted to do right by this one, irrespective of the 250 years that separates them.
Watching the funeral service Image
Patriot standards.
From the funeral, back to the battlefield where they will be reinterred.
Lastly, the Highlander.

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You will struggle to find a more jaw dropping story of naval skill and gallantry than that of USS Johnston at Leyte Gulf: Image
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The tragedy of the Woods Scawen boys.

A story of two Battle of Britain aces, combat, love, heartbreak and death.

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Somehow he evaded the guards & fled. His mother & sister were then killed.
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110 years ago this morning Archduke Franz Ferdinand was murdered in Sarajevo, triggering the First World War.

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'I shall never lead a war against Russia. I shall make sacrifices to avoid it. A war between Austria & Russia would end either with the overthrow of the Romanovs or with the overthrow of the Habsburgs – or perhaps the overthrow of both.’
Franz Ferdinand
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He fails an exam.

Hope for all of us. He was soon to be promoted from Captain to Brigadier General in just three years, becoming the youngest general in the British Army Image
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"An era of frenzied ecstasy & chaotic deception, a unique mixture of impatience & fanaticism. Everything that promised an extreme... experience, every form of narcotic-morphine, cocaine, heroin sold like hot cakes

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