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The Bat Bomb Invention and Other Odd Facts from History and War

Khalid Elhassan May 10, 2020 33 min

36. British Obliviousness

Saint Kitts leader Robert Bradshaw. Peace Post

Back in London, the British were oblivious to the mutual antipathy between Anguilla and St. Kitts, as they went about their plans to grant them independence in a united country that the Anguillians wanted no part of. It did not help that the more populous St. Kitts was dominated by a leader named Robert Bradshaw, who openly despised Anguillians.

Indeed, as Bradshaw once said of Anguilla: “I will not rest until I have reduced that place to a desert“. The Anguillians tried hard to let London know that they could not abide rule from St. Kitts, but nobody in the British government paid them any attention. In the meantime, things in the Caribbean descended into comedic farce.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.