18 September 2026 | History
On this day in 1719, the 37th Regiment of Foot left England for Spain to engage in one of its least known actions, the capture of Vigo. In early 1719 Spanish forces descended on Scotland in support of the Jacobite rising. Five thousand troops had been sent by Spain to fight against the Quadruple Alliance
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Thrice decorated, wounded and promoted from the ranks, Captain Joseph Milne was one of the only men of the 2nd Battalion to serve from their first day of action at Gallipoli on the 25th April 1915, through to the end of the war on the 11th of November 1918. Born in Edinburgh in 1881, the
Read more28 August 2026 | History
On the 3rd of September 1939, the United Kingdom declared war on Nazi Germany. The declaration of war was heeded around the world. Tensions had been building for months before the declaration. The previous year the Munich agreement and resulting surrender of the Sudetenland to Germany in September 1938 had promised ‘peace in our time’
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