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During the Jacobite Revolt of 1745, Hannah Snell, a woman from Worcester, dressed up as a man and joined the British army.
Her amazing adventure saw her fighting in India alongside Robert Clive, and conducting DIY surgery to remove a musket ball from her groin so her cover wasn't blown.

She is credited as the first woman to ever serve in the Royal Marines.

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Robert Clive was The East India Company’s first governor of Bengal, victor at the battle of Plassey (episode 118)and arguably the founder of the British Empire in India.

Yet he is also a highly controversial figure, not just now but in his own day too. Accused of accumulating huge personal wealth whilst presiding over a system that ruined the Bengal economy and cost the lives of millions in a famine.

British cartoonists called him Lord Vulture and he was forced to defend himself in front a parliamentary committee.

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The assassination of British Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval on 11th May 1812.
The only British PM to ever have been assassinated.

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The Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron is a small and often forgotten part in the fight to end slavery.

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For 60 years, Royal Navy vessels, patrolled the west coast of Africa and the Atlantic capturing over 1,500 slave ships and liberating 150,000 slaves.

It was an exercise which cost the lives of 1,600 Royal Navy sailors, one for roughly every 100 slaves liberated.

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Every year on the 12th July, Northern Ireland’s loyalist, protestant community celebrate the battle of the Boyne.

A battle in 1690 between 2 kings involving nearly 60,000 troops, on the banks of a river in Ireland.

One representing Irish Catholic hopes and the other, representing Protestant aspirations.

But what actually happened at the Battle of the Boyne,?

And why were they fighting at all?

It’s time to explore the battle that still shapes Ireland to this day.

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This is the real story of behind the film "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"

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A colonial confrontation in Africa that nearly led to an all-out war between Britain & France.

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