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Steve Gilliard's "Colonial Warfare" Series

Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 02:55:20 PM PDT

Eric over at Wampum has an in memorium post up with a partial list of Mr. Gilliard's "Colonial Warfare" Series.  I remember this series as particulary informative and so I went to re-read it.  I discovered some broken links and went into OCD mode looking up correct links and additional chapters.  

Since it looks like Eric is off having a life, I'm posting the complete link set here.

Part 1   Things Fall Apart...

part 2   Savage, Bloody Affairs Filled With Massacres

part 3   A Bloody Affair on Both Sides

part 4   The Creation of the Belgian Congo

part 5   The Collapse of Beligian Rule

part 6   The UN and Congo

part 7   How did Indonesia Become a Colony?

part 8   Indonesian War of Independence

part 9   The Colonial Efforts of the Dutch were Fairly Bloody

part 10  The Bloody End to British Rule in Kenya

part 11  The Single Worst Massacre in Colonial History (Amritsar)

part 12  The Indian National Army

part 13  The Partition of India

part 14  The French Repression on Madagascar

part 15  Keeping the Natives in Line (Vietnam)

part 16  The End of Colonial Rule in Vietnam

part 17  Civilizing the Algerians

part 18  In the world of Beau Geste (Algiers)

part 19  Egypt's riches have long been a source of colonial envy and desire... (France)

part 20  Egypt Continued (Turkey and Britain)

part 21  Egypt continued (Britain)

part 22  Egypt continued (Britain)

part 23  The Suez Canal

part 24  Can We Keep Our Colonies, Sir? (Middle East)

part 25  Algeria 1

part 26  Algeria 2

part 27  Algeria 3

part 28a Algeria 4 The Question of Torture

part 28b Algeria 5 The Legacy of Torture

part 29  Algeria 6 The War of the Algerians

part 30  Algeria 7 De Gaulle

part 31  Algeria 8 De Gaulle

part 32  World War I And The British Mandate

part 33  The Middle East

part 34  Imposing Brititsh Will on the Iraqi people

part 35  The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap... (T. E. Lawrence)

part 36  The 1941 Iraqi Coup

part 37  The Last Time (1941) Iraq Was Invaded

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