Hyacinth incident
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hyacinth-incident-165-803061
title:
Hyacinth incident
text:
The Hyacinth incident was a 1910 British military action against suspected gun runners based in Dubai, then one of the Trucial States and now one of the United Arab Emirates, which resulted in street fighting between the town's citizens and British soldiers and culminated in the shelling of Dubai by HMS Hyacinth using high explosive munitions. The attack and subsequent bombardment resulted in the killing of 37 of Dubai's townspeople, as well as four dead and five wounded British servicemen.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Military action between the Royal Navy and Dubai
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinth_incident
date created:
2020-10-06T05:52:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T05:57:41Z
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