Oxford: Museums
Art galleries, collections of antiquities, historic homes, and museums devoted to history, culture, personalities, and other themes
★★☆
Free
A fantastic bit-of-everything museum including Old Masters paintings
★☆☆
Art galleries, collections of antiquities, historic homes, and museums devoted to history, culture, personalities, and other themes
A fantastic bit-of-everything museum including Old Masters paintings
On August 27, 1896, Britain declared war on its protectorate Zanzibar, where a pretender to the Sultanate had just siezed power.
At 9:02am, British ships in the habor began shelling the would-be Sultan's palace.
By 9:40, the shelling had stopped, the palace was on fire, and the pretender's flag had been cut down.
At 38 minutes, the Anglo-Zanzibar War remains the shortest war on record.
Some 500 Zanzibaris were killed.
One British Petty Officer was wounded.
