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On the 29th April 1916, after 140 day, the besieged British & Indian garrison at Kut in modern-day Iraq surrendered to the Turks.

It was the biggest surrender of british forces since Yorktown 130 years before we’re

But, why were the British were there? how did the siege end in defeat? and what happened to the garrison after Kut?

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"Kut: The Army of Death" - Ronald Millar
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"Farewell The Trumpets" - James Morris
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The Trent Affair, in 1861 during the American Civil war, when a Union warship boarded a British mail ship and seized Confederate envoys, brought Britain and the USA to the very brink of war.

It was only the intervention by Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, that helped pull the two nations back from the abyss.

So, What actually happened in the Trent Affair in 1861? How close did the USA and Great Britain really come to fighting each other? And, exactly how did Prince Albert help avert that war?

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In Westminster Abbey, London, lies the tomb of Britain’s Unknown Warrior.

But how was he chosen from all the thousands who died? Why did he end up in this ancient place or worship, and why, is it called the tomb of the Unknown Warrior and not the Unknown Soldier?

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