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1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
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The crux of the charge being that he 'failed to do his utmost' iirc.
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My last regular This Day In History post will be April 14. That will make one year since I've been posting regularly in this thread.
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Well I'll be sad to not have your daily digest of historical happenings - but I also think a year is more than enough for one person to commit to for something like this. I did a brief stint of posting daily stuff on twitter, some years ago, and I think I managed, like a month. And that was just one thing a day.