Someone into the regiment who was an octave loyalist paramilitary who was a member of a loyalist paramilitary group. Theres no doubt that the creation of the else the defense regiment was influence for the british show me boy the experience in the empire these kinds of locally right regimens what controls and commanded by british offices and as any intrinsic pauls in the chain of command bridge show me were common through all of the counterinsurgency campaigns there was a real and genuine hype at the instigation of the regiments that it would be truly crossed me to say adam would be nonsectarian in character but it became apparent very quickly that that was not going to be the case and the british army was willing to live with the consequences which was that this would be in many ways a sectarian regiment. Many. People from little in this community joined the regiment to get weapons training and to steal weapons and according to the official documents that we funded the u. D. R. It was
To equip mali with strong institutions which are able to better manage our everyday lives and restore confidence between the government and the government show the palaces more. The bamako residence of president abraham. Secure and heavily guarded but instead of keeping people out the soldiers were keeping him in he and Prime Minister abu says say we detained here on tuesday confusion prevailed today with no explanation by the military or government until president cases appeared on state television announcing his resignation god knows what i want no blood to be spilled to keep me in power and thats why i would like to thank the 1000000 people for their warmth i am telling you now that im resigning from my position as the president and all my other positions and i announced the dissolution of the assembly and the governor. African bloc eco us responded forceful into the coup isolating mali through border closures suspending financial flows and called for sanctions against who organizes
And high winds at the way they say a record amount of land has burned this year and they warned that the fire season is far from over. Once again california is burning wildfires have plagued the state all summer and theres no sign of a lot of up with almost 15000 firefighters have been dispatched to tackle some 2 dozen large fires. Shifting winds forced the exhausted firefighters to constantly adjust their efforts started it was pushing to the east and then to the north and then big westerly wind shifts and then today was moved to the south over north winds the winds been pretty dramatically inconsistent. Temperatures in california are at an all time high and the parched countryside is highly flammable. The fire crews know that the battle is far from won. Our number one priority for this fire is the protection of property situation that we have right now a. New life threatening situation with the Weather Forecast that we have for the next 3 days and you have a red flag warning today an
Museum. My name is dana anderson, and i have the pleasure of serving as the executive director of the ham Historical Society, whose home here is abraham heritage museum. And what a treat to welcome you all tonight, at the sold out program. Id like to thank on the behalf aboard a director and our small staff, i would like to thank you all for making us a part of your week. Id also like to thank gerard excuse me, are dusty for traveling across the country to be with us tonight. Id like to thank cspan, for filming us. So that others who cannot be with us, can see us on a later date. And thank you to the Abigail Adams Historical Society, and their board of directors, who offered us this wonderful opportunity and to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker edith gelles. Abigails rich history in this region inspires us every day. Thank you. The hang in Historical Society is focused like never before on its history. To understand all voices. We currently are in the midst of a
All right. Welcome everyone, today were going to be talking about diplomacy on the early american frontier, politically between native American Peoples and european peoples. We will talk about some of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives that both native American Peoples and colonial peoples brought to those meetings. I have an image here that is actually a painting from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that went on on the frontier of new york in the Mohawk Valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named while William Johnson. Not a lot of contemporary mark and students of history know much about him, but he was an interesting figure in the 18 century. He was an irish immigrant, settled on the mohawk frontier of upstate new york in the 17 forties and became very friendly with mohawk indians who were his neighbors. Ultimately, he gained a great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the Bri