Template:Did you know nominations/Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:23, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
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Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse
A contemporary depiction of the capture of Bligh
Lachlan Macquarie
A depiction of a member of the body guard
- ... that the New South Wales Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse appears to have been absent when Governor William Bligh was arrested during the Rum Rebellion? "It is a matter for conjecture where the members of the Body Guard were when the mutineers of the NSW Corps stormed into Government House, Sydney, on 26 January 1808, to place Governor Bligh under arrest. No doubt, as members of the NSW Corps' the Bodyguard's loyalties lay with the mutineers rather than the governor, perhaps they were discretely absent." from Sargent, Clem (1998), "The Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse", Sabretache : The Journal of the Military Collectors Society of Australia, vol. 39, no. 2 (page 7)
ALT1:... that Governor of New South Wales Lachlan Macquarie "felt very much hurt" for being "singled out as Undeserving this Honor" when ordered to disband his personal bodyguard?"The Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Earl of Liverpool, directed not an increase but its disbandment ... [Macquarie] "felt very much hurt" that as the first military governor of the colony he should have been "singled out as Undeserving this Honor". from Sargent, Clem (1998), "The Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse", Sabretache : The Journal of the Military Collectors Society of Australia, vol. 39, no. 2 (page 8)ALT2: ... that the Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse has been described as the the first full-time military unit raised in Australia?"it can be described as the the first full-time military unit raised in Australia". from Sargent, Clem (1998), "The Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse", Sabretache : The Journal of the Military Collectors Society of Australia, vol. 39, no. 2 (page 12)
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 06:56, 1 April 2020 (UTC).
- If it is OK to present a conjecture rather than a fact, then I prefer the original to the ALTs as it seems the "hookiest". The review below is for the first hook and first image only.
| General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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| Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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| Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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| Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px. |
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| QPQ: Done. |
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In the hook, I have changed "appear" to "appears" as the Guard is a single entity, and "captured" to "arrested" to match the wording of the article. If the nominator agrees then this DYK is good to go. ~ RLO1729💬 03:52, 7 April 2020 (UTC)