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In 1869, the 10th Hussars introduced the game into England. The first game being demonstrated at Aldershot. Two years later the first competative game was played between the 10th Hussars and the 9th Lancers. The Hussars won by three goals to two.
The newspaper 'Field' said that Lord Valencia, Mr. E.R.Hartopp and Mr. George Cheape of the 11th Hussars attached to the 10th Hussars, were the originators.The first game in England was played at Caesar's Camp, Aldershot. The officers using snooker balls and golf clubs. Later a whitened cricket ball and better sticks were used.The 9th Lancers were the next Regiment to adopt the game which rules they improved.
It was also my understanding (from a documentary I think on Nova) that DNA research has pin-pointed man's origins in Africa, and from there he wandered to different continents.
Finally reaching Europe at the end of the Ice Age. Strange that the Australian and Anerican continents should have been habitated by man before somewhere nearer their African beginnings.
What we should bare in mind is that 'The Tales of Robin Hood' first appear in c.1450, which is some 350 years after the events that they perport to portray. This is at the start of the Wars of the Roses, and so we should assume that (whoever) conceived the legend may well have been relating the current grievances between lords but placing it in an earlier era.
130 years without a foriegn army on your soil is a pretty good record.
I may be wrong but I thought that I had read somewhere that a Mexican Army crossed the border during the 1846-1848 US-Mexican War (e.g The year after Texas became a State in the Union). Am I correct?
“It was a war for the people by the people. FOR the people because the war's goals are the people's goals — goals such as independence, a unified country, and the happiness of its people…. And BY the people — well that means ordinary people — not just the army but all people. “ General Nguyen Vo Giap? ?
From the opther side of the pond….September 7 1533 - Birth of Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603) daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Bolyne.
Oh! I've got a better one than that for September 6th (LOL)September 6, 1620After many false starts the Pilgrim Fathers finally depart from Plymouth aboard the Mayflower bound to start a new colony in the Americas.He! He! How did you miss that one?? 😮
What impact did the crusades have on history in general and the history of religion, in other words it's history and reputation.
Which Crusades in particular? There were many different Crusades for many different reasons.
So how did they fit all those people on one boat?
Oh Dear! I hope that we do not have any Naval experts on the group, otherwise somebody is going to get very pendantic about calling the Victory a 'Boat'.? 😛
At last he has started to accept that there are more places in the world than just the United States…Well done? 😆
September 1 1971The British Penny and Threepenny piece coins cease to be legal tender with the advent of Decimalisation.
August 31 1888Murder of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols who is widely believed to have been the first victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer "Jack the Ripper," who killed and mutilated prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London during the late summer and autumn of 1888.
August 30 Fanny Kaplan, a Jewish revolutionary and convicted terrorist, opposed to the overthrow of the Socialist Revolutionaries by the? Bolsheviks attempts to assassinate Lenin outside of a Moscow factory where he has been giving a speech.Whilst Lenin survived the shooting it is thought that this attack ultimately led to his later ill health,
