1141 - Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of 'King of England' (Source)
Recommended video:
Waltzing Matilda, sung by Slim Dusty
Recommended video:
Waltzing Matilda, sung by Slim Dusty
1555 - French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Killing God's Saints for Worship: Soul and King Louis XIV, by Keith Dewell
The Colonial Wars of America and Providential Significance, by Historian Bill Potter
The French Huguenots, by Peter Hammond
1688 - William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoessluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The Glorious Revolution: William and Mary, Part 1, by Joe Morecraft III
The Glorious Revolution: William and Mary, Part 2, by Joe Morecraft III
Recommended video:
The Orange and the Green, by the Irish Rovers
1955 The Vietnam War begins (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The following quote is from Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War, by Patrick Buchanan
"Churchill was exhilarated. Six months later, after the first battle of Ypres, with tens of thousands of British soldiers in their graves, he would say to Violet Asquith: 'I think a curse should rest on me - because I am so happy. I know this war is smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment and yet - I cannot help it - I enjoy every second.'
The following quote is from Howard Zinn's The Twentieth Century (referring to the Spanish-American war):
"A volunteer from this state of Washington wrote: 'Our fighting blood was up, and we all wanted to kill 'n***rs.' ...This shooting human beings beats rabbit hunting all to pieces.' It was a time of intense racism in the United States. In the years between 1889 and 1903, on the average, every week, two Nigroes were lynched by mobs-hanged, burned, mutilated. The Filipinos were brown-skinned and strange looking to Americans...Our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children prisoners and captives. Active insurgents and suspected people from lads ten up, the idea prevailing that the Philippino as such was little better than a dog..."
Recommended videos:
Billy Don't Be A Hero, by Paper Lace
Goodnight Saigon, by Billy Joel
Read None Dare Call it Conspiracy and find out why 58,000 Americans and over 1 million Vietnamese died.
