Highwayman Benjamin Child used his ill-gotten gains to discharge all the debtors in Salisbury jail. He was hanged in 1722.
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"I have no words to describe Bonaparte's merit: much technical skill, an equal degree of intelligence, and too much gallantry
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~ General Jacques François Dugommier, at the Siege of Toulon
On This Day
1286 Alexander III of Scotland died of a broken neck after falling from his horse in the dark and tumbling down a hill.
1649 The House of Commons passed an Act abolishing the House of Lords. They called it 'useless and dangerous to the people of England'.
1932 The world's tallest steel arch bridge, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, was opened.
1945 Hitler issued his Nero Decree, a scorched earth policy that aimed to destroy all German infrastructure to prevent its use by the advancing Allies.