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In 1842, the man who coined the phrase "The Great Game" was executed whilst playing it in a remote city in central Asia.

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How Winston Churchill's recommendation for a Victoria Cross, during the Anglo-Boer War, was blocked by Lord Kitchener.

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August 1900. Five hundred colonial troops. Two thousand Boer fighters. Thirteen days of siege — and a refusal to surrender that changed how the world understood the ANZAC spirit.

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In the summer of 1794, Horatio Nelson lost the sight in his right eye on a small Mediterranean island. That island was the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte. And for two years — it was British.
This is the story of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom 1794-1796.

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In January 1842, a British-led force marched out of Kabul and into one of the most devastating episodes in British military history.
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