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Tommy Macpherson, the "Kilted Killer",  was a British World War 2 commando.

Parachuted into France, he worked with the resistance blowing up bridges, taking on an elite panzer regiment and convincing an German army of 23,000 to surrender.

Once, having sabotaged a German fuel dump he cooly sat at a nearby cafe in full Highland uniform including kilt, drinking a glass of wine.

He caused so much havoc that the Germans placed a 300,000 Franc bounty on his head. But, even that couldn’t stop the man they called the “kilted killer.”

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Since it’s inception in 1856, there have been 1358 Victoria Crosses awarded.
But 8 of these heroes were forced to forfeit their medals.
This is their story.

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The battle of Aliwal, fought on the 28th January 1846 proved to be a turning point in the First Anglo-Sikh War.

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A bloody cavalry charge by the 16th Lancers combined with British commander, Sir Harry Smith’s,  clever combining of artillery and cavalry to support his infantry produced a victory in what one military historian called a “near perfect battle”.

It’s time to explore the Battle of Aliwal, which Sir Harry Smith called his “complete victory”
Welcome to part 3 of my series on the Anglo-Sikh Wars in the 1840’s.

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Have you heard of the British officer who was shot in the stomach, the groin, the hand, the ear, the skull, the ankle, the hip, the leg and they eye, and lived to tell the tale?

Awarded the Victoria Cross, he also survived plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner of war camp with one hand; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. 

This is the story of Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart VC, the soldier they couldn’t kill.

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In the 1840’s an Englishman, created his own private kingdom on the island of Borneo. Supported by the Royal Navy,  one of whose commanders is a far off relative to Queen Camilla, he fought the Borneo Pirates.

This is the story of James Brooke, the white Rajah of Sarawak, and the Borneo Pirates.

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During the First World War, Private Henry Tandey was awarded of the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Military medal, in just 4 weeks!

But 20 years later just before the outbreak of World War Two another story began to circulate; that  he had saved the life of  Adolf Hitler.

So did he save Hitler or did the German leader hijack a British war hero's reputation for his own ends?

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The battle of Ferozeshah, fought during 1st Anglo-Sikh War in 1845, was battle of egos, madness and traitors.

A farcical power struggle between the two most senior British officers, bayonet charges against cannon, British cavalry and artillery ordered off the field midway through the battle, and Sikh commanders snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

It’s almost comical, if it were not for the 5,000 men killed and wounded.

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The battle of Cape St. Vincent turned Horatio Nelson into a national hero.

The battle where Royal Navy defeated the Spanish Navy was fought on the 14th February 1797. It was not so much a St. Valentine’s Day massacre,  but it did make Nelson the darling of the British public.

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My recent video about  “The African Queen”. has resulted in loads of requests to find out more about the Great War in German East Africa.

So, by popular demand, I thought I’d explore this fascinating and, largely, forgotten conflict in a little more detail.

The war in East Africa saw  Paul von Lettow Vorbeck commanding a small army of German colonial troops hold out against an allied army nearly 10x his size for the entire 4-yea war (1914-1918).

Undefeated, he surrendered two weeks after the Armistice in Europe.

This is the story of that war, against a man nicknamed the “Lion of Africa.”

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The story of Ernest Grandier, the only European prisoner of war taken by the Zulus during the Anglo-Zulu War 1879.

But was his tale one of heroism or just a tall story?

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