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ARCOS RAID

The ARCOS Raid was a three-day search of the All Russian Cooperative Society's premises in Moorgate, London by 200 police officers in 1927, forming the climax of an attempt by Assistant Commissioner Wyndham Child of Scotland Yard to outlaw the Communist Party of Great Britain. The raid was intended to prove the Trade Mission was involved in espionage by finding marked secret papers which were 'allowed' to go missing from the War Office. The search failed to find the missing War Office papers.
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BANNASTRE TARLETON

Sir Bannastre Tarleton was a British soldier. He was born in 1754 and died in 1833. A colonel, he went to America from England with Charles Cornwallis in 1776. He engaged in Colonel Harcourt's raid upon Baskingridge, New Jersey. In 1779 he organized the British Legion, or Tarleton's Legion, in South Carolina, with which he conducted partisan warfare. He slaughtered Colonel Buford's regiment at Waxhaw Creek and fought bravely at Camden and Fishing Creek. He was defeated at Blackstock Hill by General Sumter and his force was almost annihilated at Cowpens by General Morgan. He surrendered with Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown. He wrote 'A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America'.
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DOUGLAS

Douglas is a family distinguished in the annals of Scotland. Their origin is unknown. They were already territorial magnates at the time when Bruce and Baliol were competitors for the crown. As their estates lay on the borders they early became guardians of the kingdom against the encroachments of the English, and acquired in this way power, habits, and experience which frequently made them formidable to the crown.

We notice in chronological succession the most distinguished members of the family. James Douglas son of the William Douglas who had been a companion of Wallace, and is commonly known as the Good Sir James, early joined Bruce, and was one of his chief supporters throughout his career, and one of the most distinguished leaders at the battle of Bannockburn. He fell in battle with the Moors while on his way to the Holy Land with the heart of his master, in 1331.

Archibald Douglas, youngest brother of Sir James Douglas, succeeded to the regency of Scotland in the infancy of David. He was defeated and killed at Halidon Hill by Edward III. in 1333.

William Douglas, son of Archibald Douglas, was created first earl in 1357. He recovered Douglasdale from the English, and was frequently engaged in wars with them. He fought at the battle of Poitiers. He died in 1384.

James Douglas, the second earl, who, like his ancestors, was constantly engaged in border warfare, was killed at the battle of Otterburn in 1388. After his death the earldom passed to an illegitimate son of the Good Sir James Douglas, Archibald the Grim Lord of Galloway.

Archibald Douglas, son of Archibald the Grim and fourth earl, was the Douglas who was defeated and taken prisoner by Percy (Hotspur) at Homildon the 14th of September, 1402. He was also taken prisoner at Shrewsbury on the 23rd of July 1403, and did not recover his liberty until 1407. He was killed at the battle of Verneuil, in Normandy, in 1427. Charles VII. created him Duke of Touraine, which title descended to his successors.

William Douglas, sixth earl, was born in 1422, together with his only brother David was assassinated by Crichton and Livingstone at a banquet to which he had been invited in the name of the king, in Edinburgh Castle, on the 24th of November, 1440. Jealousy of the great power which the Douglases had acquired from their possessions in Scotland and France was the cause of this deed.

William Douglas, the eighth earl, a descendant of the third earl, restored the power of the Douglases by a marriage with his cousin, heiress of another branch of the family; was appointed lord-lieutenant of the kingdom, and defeated the English at Sark. Latterly having entered into a treasonous league, he was invited by James II to Stirling and there murdered by the king's own hand, on the 22nd of February 1452.

James Douglas, the ninth and last earl, brother of William Douglas, took up arms with his allies to avenge the death of his brother, but was finally driven to England, where he continued an exile for nearly thirty years. Having entered Scotland on a raid in 1484 he was taken prisoner and confined in the abbey of Lindores, where he died in 1488. His estates, which had been forfeited in 1455, were bestowed on the fourth Earl of Angus, the 'Red Douglas,' the representative of a younger branch of the Douglas family, which continued long after to flourish.

The fifth Earl of Angus, Archibald Douglas, was the celebrated ' Bell-the-Cat,' one of whose sons was Gawin Douglas the poet. He died in a monastery in 1514.

Archibald, the sixth earl, married Queen Margaret, widow of James IV, attained the dignity of regent of the kingdom, and after various vicissitudes of fortune, having at one time been attainted and forced to flee from the kingdom, died about 1560. He left no son, and the title of Earl of Angus passed to his nephew David.

James Douglas, brother of David Douglas, married the heiress of the Earl of Morton, which title he received on the death of his father-in-law.

His nephew, Archibald, eighth Earl of Angus and Earl of Morton, died childless, and the earldom of Angus then passed to Sir William Douglas of Glenbervie, his cousin, whose son William was raised to the rank of Marquis of Douglas.

Archibald, the great-grandson of William, was raised in 1703 to the dignity of Duke of Douglas, but died unmarried in 1761, when the ducal title became extinct, and the marquisate passed to the Duke of Hamilton, the descendant of a younger son of the first marquis. The line of Angus or the Red Douglas is now represented by the houses of Hamilton and Home, who both claim the title of Earl of Angus.
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FREDDIE HARRISON

Freddie Harrison is an English air-raid hero. He was born in 1935. In 1941, at the age of six, he rescued his small sister from the bomb-wrecked bedroom of their house in London before returning to rescue his other sister during an air-raid.
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GEORGE STONEMAN

George Stoneman was an American soldier and politician. He was born in 1822 and died in 1894. He was educated at the US Military Academy. He refused to surrender Fort Brown to the Secessionists in 1861 by order of his superior officer, General David Twiggs. He commanded the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1862. He led a division at the second Battle of Bull Run, and a corps at Fredericksburg. He commanded a cavalry raid toward Richmond in 18635 was engaged in the Atlanta campaign in 1864; and fought at Salisbury and Asheville. He was Governor of California from 1883 to 1887.
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HENRY A. WISE

Henry A Wise was an American politician. He was born in 1806 and died in 1876. He represented Virginia in the US Congress as a Democrat from 1833 to 1843, but supported the Whig party in opposition to Jackson's bank policy. He was Minister to Brazil from 1844 to 1847. He was elected Governor of Virginia in 1856, after a severe struggle with the Know-nothings, whom he denounced as abolitionists in disguise. He served until 1859. During his administration occurred John Brown's raid. As a member of the Virginia Convention in 1861 he laboured for conciliation. He led a Confederate brigade in the Kanawha Valley and defended Roanoke Island. He wrote a book of political history called 'Seven Decades of the Union'.
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JOHN ALCOCK

Sir John Alcock was an English airman. He was born in 1892 at Manchester and died in 1919. He trained as an engineer at the Empress Motor Works before turning his attention to aviation and in 1912 won the flying certificate of the Royal Aero Club. He then started competing in aero races, coming second in the 1913 London to Manchester and back race. In 1914 he joined the Royal Navy Air Service and was made an instructor at Eastchurch. Serving at the front against the Turks, winning the DSC and the record for a long-distance bombing raid before he was taken prisoner. In June 1919 he, together with A.W. Brown entered the Daily Mail sponsored competition to fly across the Atlantic, and together they made the first flight across the Atlantic, flying from Newfoundland to Ireland in a little over sixteen hours, winning 10,000 pounds prize money and a few days later they were both knighted. Sir John Alcock was killed in December 1919 in an aeroplane crash while flying from London to Paris.
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JOHN SULLIVAN

John Sullivan was an American soldier and politician. He was born in 1740 at Maine and died in 1795. He was a major in the Maine militia before the American War of Independence, and was appointed brigadier-general in 1775. he was engaged in the siege of Boston and in Canada in the unsuccessful attack of Three Rivers. He became a major general in 1776, and was one of the principal commanders in the Battle of Long Island and in the autumn campaign of 1776 fought at Trenton and Princeton, and made a raid on Staten Island. He led the right flank at Brandywine and Germantown, and won the Battle of Butts Hill in Rhode Island in 1778. In 1779 he ravaged the country of the Six Nations. He served in Congress, and was a Federalist governor of New Hampshire from 1789 until 1790.
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LITTLE CROW

Little Crow was a Sioux Indian chief. He led an outbreak of the Indians on the Upper Minnesota in 1863, but was defeated at Wood Lake. He was shot while making a raid in 1863.
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MALCOLM III

Malcolm III was King of Scotland from 1057 to 1093. He was born around 1031 and died in 1093. Malcolm III was the eldest son of Duncan I, who was killed by Macbeth. Malcolm III lived in exile in England until defeating and killing Macbeth in 1057, and subsequently ascending the Scottish throne. In 1072 he recognised William I as overlord of England, but in 1093 was killed by William II while making a raid into England.
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