# @TheStoicEnglish: Chronological List (newest first) Profile: [[Users/@TheStoicEnglish/TheStoicEnglish-x-profile|profile]] · Topic: [[Topics/Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History/Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History|Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History]] · Analysis: [[Users/@TheStoicEnglish/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - TheStoicEnglish on the British Empire (2026-11-03)|Post Analysis]] > **Coverage.** These are the 25 items X returned for this account (23 posts, 2 threads), from Nov 1, 2026, 1:11 AM CT to Nov 3, 2026, 12:07 PM CT. It is a recent sample, not the full archive of 1,346 posts. Metrics are an X API snapshot from X API, Nov 3, 2026, about 8:30 PM CT, so the newest posts have had little time to collect likes and views. Themes were assigned by keyword rules and may misfile a few items. "thread" means a reply to his own post. Times are Central Time (CT). **Themes:** - **Empire and colonies** - **British history** - **Promotion** - **Other** ## Tuesday, Nov 3, 2026 | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [12:07 PM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117680198233579748) | post | Empire and colonies | The British Empire was the greatest work of human civilisation this world has ever seen. It outlawed the slave trade and then hunted it to extinction… **Analysis: 🟡.** | 987 | 12,318 | | [9:52 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117646119584895073) | post | Other | On this day, 3 November 1688, more than 500 ships passed through the Strait of Dover in a line so broad it saluted Dover Castle and Calais at the same… | 4 | 347 | | [9:32 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117641061283635217) | post | Promotion | They called them Task Force Slack. Sixty SAS operators proved them all wrong. https://t.co/jftGQZ4Zm4 | 71 | 3,463 | | [8:39 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117627714614014170) | post | British history | Parliament. Trial by jury. Habeas corpus. The free press. The end of the slave trade. Every one of them was British before it was anyone else's. The B… | 30 | 603 | | [7:08 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117604755140665355) | post | British history | Fifty-four thousand British soldiers at Ypres have no grave. Their names are on the Menin Gate, and Belgian firemen have played the Last Post under it… | 269 | 3,510 | | [6:37 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117597036463726996) | post | British history | On this day, 3 November 1839, the first battle of the Opium War began with the Royal Navy firing on a British ship. The Royal Saxon had sworn to China… | 4 | 361 | | [5:18 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117577188966903822) | post | British history | Thirty Englishmen against thirty French, on foot, no quarter, a crowd watching. Halfway through they stopped for wine and bandages, then went back to… | 13 | 470 | ## Monday, Nov 2, 2026 | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [2:26 PM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117352649737560299) | post | Other | Armada. Napoleon. Kaiser. Hitler. The slave trade. Every one of them learned the same lesson the same way. When the world faces a darkness, there is o… | 72 | 1,875 | | [12:08 PM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117317996045574270) | post | Other | Edith Cavell smuggled around two hundred Allied soldiers out of occupied Belgium and nursed German wounded too. On 12 October 1915 a German firing squ… | 28 | 1,033 | | [11:33 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117309124455076243) | post | British history | A seven-year-old boy sentenced two old knights to death. His mother, the Queen of England, asked him what death they should die. The Prince of Wales a… | 19 | 2,882 | | [10:29 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117293020991070330) | post | Other | Why is the silence two minutes and not one? One minute is for the dead. The other is for the men who came home and had to live with it. #remembrance h… | 44 | 946 | | [9:08 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117272535104434201) | post | Other | On this day, 2nd November 1841, a mob gathered outside a house in Kabul. At first, by one account, there were no more than 30 of them. Inside was Sir… | 3 | 515 | | [8:32 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117263492126326902) | post | British history | One small island in a cold sea. Name another nation that did what it did. You cannot. #britishhistory https://t.co/EZ1XiCsBMU | 51 | 813 | | [7:23 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117246292036321505) | thread | British history | If you've been told to be ashamed of this country's past, this is what they left out. I started The Stoic English because nobody was telling it — so I… | 5 | 113 | | [7:22 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117246037622505699) | thread | Other | They want an apology. I'd rather give them the record. I started this because I was tired of watching our history told by people who hold it in contem… | 317 | 8,848 | | [6:05 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117226468044308720) | post | Promotion | Off duty. No orders. No backup. One SAS soldier walked into the Nairobi attack alone. https://t.co/ADmTi6xwEz | 25 | 756 | | [4:41 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117205340257165779) | post | British history | On behalf of the British people, I would like to apologise for the slave trade. I am sorry we were the first great power in history to turn its guns o… | 10,746 | 221,431 | | [2:04 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2117165931394666832) | post | British history | In 1820 an Asante king offered a British envoy gold to argue for restarting the slave trade. Britain said no. #history https://t.co/dDWnxpReUp | 132 | 6,524 | ## Sunday, Nov 1, 2026 | Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:| | [12:07 PM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2116955348992995489) | post | Promotion | Three suns rose, and an eighteen-year-old made the sky fight for York — Mortimer's Cross, 1461. https://t.co/0YVSeAub9T | 12 | 433 | | [8:31 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2116900983653503021) | post | Other | November. The month we remember the men who faced tyranny and said: no. Not here. Not today. Wear the poppy. Stand on Sunday. Give them two minutes on… | 81 | 4,984 | | [7:31 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2116885750692057541) | post | British history | On this day, 1st November 1944, 27 small British landing craft steered straight at the German guns at Westkapelle. Their job was to draw the fire onto… | 9 | 666 | | [7:03 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2116878893088899183) | post | Other | 22 April 1915: chlorine rolls over the Allied line at Ypres. With no masks, the Canadians hold, breathing through soaked handkerchiefs. In the same ba… | 8 | 410 | | [4:31 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2116840626436100391) | post | Promotion | London wouldn't give the green light. The SAS went into Basra and got their men back anyway. https://t.co/eLGpG2TPjd | 46 | 1,126 | | [2:02 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2116803095896158593) | post | British history | On this day, 1st November 1914, the sun went down behind 2 British cruisers off the coast of Chile and lit them up for the German guns. Within an hour… | 7 | 267 | | [1:11 AM](https://x.com/TheStoicEnglish/status/2116790201003499579) | post | Other | George Ellison survived Mons, Ypres and the Somme, and was killed ninety minutes before the Armistice. He lies seven yards from John Parr, seventeen,… | 103 | 7,236 |