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Our December Lecture: Battlefields Under Threat

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Our Next Lecture: Battlefields Under Threat b y David Wilson  Saturday, 1 December 2018                Battlefield Under Threat - Isandlwana Battlefield, Zululand, South Africa In this presentation, battlefield guide and historian David Wilson will examine a number of significant battlefields that are under threat by late 20th or 21st Century encroachments. The causes of these intrusions usually range from growing industrial development, urban expansion or straight out mismanagement by well-meaning groups or individuals whose sometimes grandiose plans should never be allowed to come to fruition. Without going into the fine detail of each battle or engagement, we will look at eight separate keynote battlefields around the world. These are only a few of the many currently under threat, beginning with Agincourt (1415) in France and working forward to the modern day, highlighting some well-known examples from Europe, Turkey, Africa and America. Several sites with Australian