The Battle of Culloden was fought on April 16, 1746. Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart [1] in the final battle of the Jacobite Rising on British soil.
—
April 16, 1866: Nitroglycerine exploded at a Wells Fargo & Company office in San Francisco. This reportedly shattered glass in a half a mile radius.
—
April 16th is the birthday of libertarian novelist J. Neil Schulman. He was best known as author of the novel Alongside Night.
—
I just heard that famed mountaineer Jim Whittaker passed away, at age 97 [2].
—
Today’s feature article is a guest post from a long-time SurvivalBlog reader. Because it is partly self-promotional, it is not part of the writing contest judging.
We need entries for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [3]. More than $984,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. Round 124 ends on May 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail [4] us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging. In 2023, we polled blog readers, asking for suggested article topics [5]. Please refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic.