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Apr 22 • 7 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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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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Apr 22
Another pre-dawn start at Camden, South Carolina.

We are preparing for the reburials of 14 American Revolutionary War soldiers whose remains were found on the 1780 battlefield.

They include one Scottish soldier, a Fraser Highlander.

The @Royal_Scots are acting as pall bearers.
20% of them were teenagers.

One young man had a shattered spine with a musket ball in it.

The Scotsman was around 5'6, very thickly built and had a blunt force injury to the back of the head. Possibly a musket but blow

His body where the hand to hand fighting was most intense Image
The coffins are made from pine which was growing when they fell.

An 18th Century prayerbook will be used.

The Highlander will be drawn on a gun carriage, in the British tradition.
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Apr 20
We were mad to let this tradition lapse.

The Champion is a hereditary office currently held by a chartered accountant in his 60s from Lincolnshire.

I want to see him fight Charles' challenger.
"The claimant of the House of Wessex have announced that they have signed Tyson Fury as their Champion"
The Dymoke Family of the Manor of Scrivelsby have been Champions since the coronation of Richard II in the 14th Century. They're still going strong.
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Mar 31
Apart from when Charles' grandson invaded & fought his uncle for the crown or when Charles' other grandson invaded & deposed that same uncle ushering in the, um, Glorious Revolution, or when Charles' great grandson invaded, triggering several battles & a savage counter insurgency
And if you're eliding 'Britain' and the 'UK' then I feel like the Irish may have notes.
I absolutely loved Abulafia's book 'Boundless Ocean'. I feel he has not been well served by the headline writer. And there is something interesting about the longevity of elements of the UK constitution as opposed to radical discontinuity of many European states.
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Mar 29
110 years ago today Captain Scott died in the Antarctic. Within three weeks Captain Smith of the Titanic died in the Atlantic.

@Timmaltin has calculated that they may have perished as a result of the same weather phenomenon.

Podcast here:

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111 years ago obviously! I have forgotten what year it is because I drank too many delicious IPAs last night.
Robert Scott wrote his last entry in his diary today in 1912. He was only 11 miles from safety, but had been trapped for nine days by a blizzard. ‘It seems a pity but I do not think I can write more R Scott, last entry.... For God's sake look after our people.' Image
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Mar 28
HMS Victory is rotting.

But fear not. The world's greatest ship is being meticulously restored.

Here's everything you need to know with curator Andrew Baines



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I grabbed a handful

Interestingly the worst affected wood is probably the teak and iroko added during the restoration of the 1990s. Particularly on the starboard side which faces the sou'westerly winds and the hot afternoon sun.
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Mar 5
Happy Birthday, Spitfire.
First flight today in 1936. Best piston engined fighter ever. At the controls was Vickers test pilot Joseph "Mutt" Summers who said on landing, simply, "Don't touch anything."
It was named by Sir Robert McLean, the chairman of Vickers, after his young daughter, Anna, who was apparently a 'right little spitfire.' According to legend Reginald Mitchell, the lead engineer, said, "It's the sort of bloody silly name they would give it."
My favourite Spitfire content however is probably the fact that the Mk IX was modified to carry bombs or extra tanks under the wings. It was discovered that beer kegs could also be carried. So after D-day a lot of British beer was spirited into France by Sptifires.
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