My Dad Wrote a History Hit!
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Relief of Mafeking
Mafeking was a siege in the boer war in about 19 hundred it went on for 217 days. For a certain generation, materking became a kind of byword for plucky british underdog success. It's interesting now no one's ever heard of it any more right? So it's, i, this is, this is pawn written by n generation, for a certain generation. And so for someone schooled in the a of 19 50, 60, seventi would have been absolut and then the boy scouts were founded, partly as a result,. A few years later.
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