Scottish Centre - War Studies/Conflict Archaeologyさんのイラストまとめ

1839/40 images Amistad Revolt & La Amistad. United Missionary Society raised money for 35 survivors to return to Sierra Leone. Important legacy, including @AmistadResearch Centre, archives of "America's ethnic & racial history, human relations & civil rights". #TuesdayMotivation

Boshin (Civil) War between #Japan Tokugawa Shogunate & Imperial faction ended #OTD 1869. Shogun forces surrendered. British & French Imperial rivalry - supported different sides & featured in such (romanticised) depictions as 1880 painting. #ThursdayThoughts #FolkloreThursday

The Covenanters won the Battle of Drumclog on 1 June 1679, forcing Government troops to flee to #Glasgow - commander's request to burn it was (thankfully) refused, although it was pillaged. #OTD 3 weeks later, the Covenanters lost the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. #SaturdayMorning

"the most bold & daring act of the age". Horatio Nelson on the burning of USS Philadelphia #OTD 1804 in a raid by US Marines led by Stephen Decatur, Second Battle of Tripoli Harbor. Ship ran aground & captured fighting First Barbary War off North African coast. #SaturdayMorning

Natural #disasters can raise security concerns. 1169 Sicily Earthquake #OTD killed 15 to 25,000 people, damaging/destroying settlements. It also raised fears exiles would exploit situation with a Byzantine invasion/rebellion, although this did not occur. #MondayMorning #medieval

"placing military auxiliaries in the context of extensive continental European involvement in Britain's empire." Join us at 5.15 today, Room 209, 2 University Gardens @UofGlasgow for Prof Stephen Conway @UCLHistory speaking on 'Britannia’s Military Auxiliaries'. #TuesdayThoughts

Europeans at the heart of Britain's Empire. Join us, 5.15 next Tuesday 9 October to hear Prof Stephen Conway @StephenConway94 speak on 'Britannia’s Military Auxiliaries: Continental Europeans in British Imperial Service, 1740-1800'. Rm 209, 2 University Gardens. #TuesdayThoughts

1298 #OTD Battle of Curzola. Genoese Navy defeats Venetians. Explorer Marco Polo, allegedly captured in this but probably earlier battle, spent his time in captivity dictating later famous work 'The Travels of Marco Polo', detailing his journeys around world. #FridayMotivation

1778 #OTD France invaded & captured Dominica in Caribbean: 2000 French soldiers to around 40-100 British + militia. French already infiltrated & got support of (mostly French) population, distracting one part of the garrison with drink & spiking cannons with sand. #FridayFeeling

In 1380, a dispute over brewing rights prompted a conflict in Vretslav (Wroclaw) between City Council & Church, known as the #Beer War - property seized, interdiction of religious services & sacking of Cathedral by soldiers. Truce after Papal intervention. #InternationalBeerDay