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Member of the sub-optimal school of Historians. All opinions are completely biased. Determinist. Redcoat-Masculinityist Rum and Raisin superfan! DMs Ignored!

England, United Kingdom
Joined October 2018
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Morning! Start the week off like Edward Seager and nothing will slow you down. Edward Seagar. From Private to Lieutenant General. Lantern jawed Scouse warrior, survivor of the light brigades charge and an example of social mobility in Victorian England. This will be a 🧵
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Drummer Menzies defending his wounded Lieutenant during a street fight in Kandahar.
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Late night Scrapbook presents..... Confessions of a Cavalry Officer!
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As its British Empire day on twitter. Here are a few pics. Just to remind us.
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The Hazara Gurkha Battalion outflanking the Afghans at Peiwar Kotal 1878.
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Since the Napoleon trailers were released i have been discussing/moaning about the modern directors penchant for filming everything through a dirty oven door. As an antidote here are some stills from the Battle of the Rive plate. Filmed in glorious technicolour!
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Happy Trafalgar day!!! Lets hear it for the top Lads!
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This is an unpaid advertisement.
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If you see this tweet you have to mention one of your favorite paintings.
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If you see this tweet you have to mention one of your favorite paintings.
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The Royal Navy are having fun off the coast of Yemen. And not for the first time. Got me thinking to back to our first troubles in the Gulf of Aden in 1609. Thread🧵
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A typical picture of America under British rule.
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After Trafalgar Jeanette being rescued by the brave men of HMS Pickle
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Nelson and Wellington after meeting in Castlereagh's office. Slight error in the picture.
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Have to admit. Penny Mordaunt..........
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#TrafalgarDay ends! Secure cats and dogs and put sound on full 😎
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Just to help Republic out with their self-awareness once again. The last time we became a Republic we captured Jamaica and filled it with slaves. So the fundamental link with slavery is with the Republicans themselves. Not the Royal Family.
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The royals, slavery and empire are linked, even today. #AbolishTheMonarchy #NotMyKing
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Have been daydreaming about Redcoats vs Predator. Set in 1760s India it features and EIC company, French deserters and Thuggees making a last stand at a ruined Kali temple. Happy to say its a colonization allegory to get funding. If anyone knows any #Bollywood film Moguls etc...
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A villain you liked more than the Hero
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A villain you liked more than the hero.
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Trafalgar day!
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Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Trafalgar day
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Happy Trafalgar day! Let's hear it for the Boys!
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Were back from Bunker Hill. Wuhahaha!!!
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I got to hold an Anglo-Saxon short sword! Still solid. Still sharp in parts. I felt like Uhtred. What a day.
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Sword trip today! Travelling to deepest Berks. Which isn't as bad as it sounds. Once there going to see some right beauties. Including a very very special sword. Pics later.
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Flags up! Rule Britannia!
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A Nelson pub sign! This is it. The final piece in your Man Cave (or Womanly retreat)! Coming to auction:
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Some colours for a grey day.
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The blood and body of Christ of Englishness.
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Tried to buy this Royal navy sword. Got outbid. I liked it as it had the owners initials (GFWG) stamped inside the guard. I did some basic research and saw a life of ups and downs and ups for GFWG. So thought I would share this brief history of a Hero of the Empire:
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Happy faces, cheering crowds. The cup of brotherly love overflowing. The British Army marches through Philadelphia.
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The Napoleonic war arrived in Japan #OTD in 1808. HMS Phaeton entered Nagasaki harbour without permission looking for Dutch trading ships. Defying the protective the Japanese fort. The Fort was powerless due its commander trousering all the funds. He later committed seppuku.
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The siege of Basing house. #OTD 1645
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Into the unknown with the Grey Breeks!
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Amazing what French armour research brings you 😍
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Once we stormed the battlements whilst wearing Loafers.
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Happy Albuera and Mafeking day everyone!
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It's Culloden day! A prize to anyone who can explain it all in a single tweet!
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New Napoleon trailer just dropped! Definitely warming to it.
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Did you know that Robert Clive avoided causing huge casualties at the Battle of Plassey and was still condemned for it?
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You have 6 seconds to talk to me 👋 what would you say? 🤐
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The British Empire Sponsored by Whisky.
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Its Blackadder day!!! The greatest sitcom ever made (just ahead of Fawlty towers). Many people rightly point to the final scene as one of the great moments of TV. The tragedy of Captain Darling is unfairly skipped past IMO
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1980s Airfix. Still sealed!
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Goodbye old Man.
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Mrs Empires away tonight so I'm polishing my sword in the kitchen. Haha! No one tell her.
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It's the WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!
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Morning!
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I sold a Royal Navy sword to an Italian chap called Andrea. He wanted it for his Naval collection. Asked to see a picture. Bloody hell!
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A round of applause for Mrs Empire!
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1689 Two Danish soldiers from King Williams army fell out over a girl and duelled. Lt Daniel Straker lost. Cornet Johannes Bellow won but then lost his head on the block. This plaque on St Marys Church, Beverley remembers them.
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Its Hero of the Empire Colin Blair. From a family of warriors. Colin served in both the first and second world wars. He served with the Scots Guards during WW1 before being invalided out in June 1918. When WW2 rolled round Colin was ready for another crack and joined the DCLI.
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Look at their faces!
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Happy Chateauguay day! A most splendid victory for the heavily outnumbered Canadians! Where De Salaberry bamboozled those pesky American chancers and sent them paddling back down lake Champlain!
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Using a gif, who is the greatest fictional captain ever?
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Using a gif, who is the greatest fictional captain ever?
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1796 Light Cavalry Sabre looking for a new home! A stalwart friend to British Cavalrymen as they charged across the Napoleonic battlefields. This one was forged from Birmingham steel by John Gill over 200 years ago. DM me if you want to know more
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Poor old Salisbury. The Russians can't leave it alone.
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Its General HOWLE!
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Final scene from the long awaited NELSON/WELLINGTON movie.
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Its Hero of the Empire Richard Wolfe of the Scots Greys. Richard was part of the Desert column sent to rescue Charles Gordon at Khartoum. He was killed at the Battle of Abu Klea. Likeness here:
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Imperial Overload! Kitchener and friends at the Shiba palace in Tokyo. 1909.
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A lot of discussion about sharpened Swords. So here are the Sharpies in order of service: NCO/Drummers mystery hanger 1780s 1786-96 Sabre 1788-96 L Cav 1796-1821 L Cav 1803ish Bombay Marine (unconfirmed) 1796-1821 L Cav 1821-55ish L Cav 1895-15 Blois-Johnsons Infantry Chopper
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Will let you guess this one!
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Turner would have loved this.
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You have a £Billion and can make whatever historical film you like. What would be the subject?
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French critics wrote columns and not lines.
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French critics pour scorn on Ridley Scott’s ‘clumsy’ Napoleon
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Got a lot going on atm. Having to do proper work etc and not had time to sit down and post. Anyway have 5 mins so here's Thomas Ridley's Peninsular medal with 11 clasps!
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Any plans today?
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I offer workshops in this.
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Merry Xmas to you all! 😎😃😆👍😍😁♥️
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Todays featured regiment are the Groundsmans Rifles! Known as the 'Old Sods' they were the only fighting force to leave a battlefield looking better than when they found it.
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Happy Buxar day! A splendid victory over the combined forces of the Moghul Emperor, the Nawab of Oudh and Mir Qasim. Outnumbered but better organised. The British absorbed the allied attack and then broke it. The allies fled the field leaving the hapless Emperor behind.
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You see. This is what i like. Colin died 60 years ago. He did what he could at times when it was needed. He was married twice but had no children. Not many will remember him. Yet here on twitter. Just for a day. 5500 people saw him and many gave him a like. Excellent stuff 😎
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Its Hero of the Empire Colin Blair. From a family of warriors. Colin served in both the first and second world wars. He served with the Scots Guards during WW1 before being invalided out in June 1918. When WW2 rolled round Colin was ready for another crack and joined the DCLI.
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This is a great work. I could spend hours looking at it. Lithuania has got a brilliant mix of Knights, Axemen and Bears!
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Here it is, the project that I have been working on for over a year: A heraldic map of Europe
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Redcoat Megathread. Pictures from a to be auctioned album.
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I have AI'd myself out. Its produced some crazy and intriguing results. Dumping them here.
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Bullet proof Elephants were the key that unlocked India.
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This was quite impressive.
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3 cheers for His Majesty The King #coronation The armed forces doing a superb job in the gardens of Buckingham Palace
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Happy Friday everyone! I wish you luck with all your devious plots.
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Any chance we can get W DAY trending?
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The first ever overseas performance of Hamlet was in Sierra Leone in 1607.
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Tell me something I dont know 👀
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Finer Detail
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Third go at AI art. Pretty scary.
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Ahead of the curve as usual. Just need financial backing. @elonmusk @Ocean_Finance
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More period “Predator” films, please. I think “Prey” showed a return to the franchise’s potential greatness. Give me one in the Wild West. Feudal Japan. The Zulu Nation. Give me a Predator slaughtering Conquistadors and Aztecs with a Jaguar Warrior taking it down.
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Its the British Empire. No thanks required 😎🇬🇧
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How did it happen so fast?
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Bought some friends back from Buckinghamshire!
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More Elephant action from Arcot!
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Olden but golden!
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The British Empire made an heroic last stand about every ten years. Today I will go with Sagarhi.
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What is your favorite historical last stand?
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Live from the England camp.
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Left in a rush this morning. I'm sure I forgot something.
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Deleted scene from Redcoats vs Predator Look. You did well, you really did. You just don't have Laser weapons or a cloaking device. Also, Red in the Jungle?
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George III's version >>> Ridley Scott's
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OT Finally given in and put the heating on. The Dogs are melting into the floor.
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Still finding Arcot pictures!
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The drums of the fore and aft Happy Ahmed Kel day!
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Its the weekend! Have a great break 😎
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Happy Friday everyone!
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Good Morning! The weekends in sight.
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Its Hero of the Empire John Worthington Adams. A real old India hand. John joined the Army as a 16y.o. in 1780. He fought against the Rohillas. Was at the capture of Seringapatam. Held commands in Kumaon, Nagpur, the Deccan. Took Chanda in 181 8 and was was at Bharatpur in 1826.
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Hooray!
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Prince Philip receiving a Gurkha farewell after visiting them in Hong Kong in 1986.
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