Alright, I realize it's gonna be too much to ask for people to go borrow a bunch of books and sift through archives or whatever. I'm not a historian and I don't have an easy quick resource handy for you, but I've got a lot of bitter oral history rattling around in my head. I'll distill and share a few lessons I took from that oral history, through my own anarchist lens (bias, if you prefer).
Lesson 1: Don't trust the British
This one is self-explanatory, I think.