Japanese forces launched a full-scale assault on the city, which resulted in heavy casualties on both sides. Nanjing Massacre (December 1937 – January 1938): Following the fall of Nanjing (Nanking), Japanese forces carried out a brutal campaign of mass killings, rapes, and atrocities against ...
authorized the enlistment of black troops, and outraged pro-slavery Southerners. It was an important turning point in the war, shifting the goal from simply restoring the Union, to restoring the Union
President Andrew Johnson announced his Reconstruction plan soon after he became president following Lincoln’s assassination, and implemented it during the summer of 1865 when Congress was in recess. It offered general amnesty to all who would take an oath of future loyalty. High-ranking Confederate...
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 saw the British Empire invade the independent Zulu kingdom in South Africa. Click for more facts & worksheets.
It can also refer to the continuation of conflict in this region, beginning with Palestine Liberation Organization operations transfer to South Lebanon, following the civil war events of 1971 Black September in the Kingdom of Jordan. Historical tension between Palestinian refugee and Lebanese factions ...
Unavoidable Delays means delays due to any of the following, and only the following, (provided that such delay is beyond Construction Manager’s reasonable control): war, insurrection, civil commotion, strikes, slowdowns, lock outs, riots, flood, earthquakes, fires, casualties, acts of God, act...
The expenses scandal, andwork by the House of Commons Administration Committee, prompted the creation of acomprehensive induction packagefor the 2010 intake, combining internal and external provision. But low take-up resulted in a more pared-back, but better attended, offering in 2015. In 2017 ...
after government forces attacked his village in eastern Tigray. He fought until wounded by a grenade, losing his leg, a month before the peace agreement. Impressed by Kibrom’s determination to return to his everyday life, the photographer wanted to show the aftermath of the war, re...
This resulted in a long war of resistance which ended in 1954 with the French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Following the election of 1952, which saw Dwight D. Eisenhower assume the presidency, Eisenhower had been urged by hard-line anti-communists to support the French, bu...
in northern Spain, the Sun is behind the camera. The rainbow resulted from sunlight reflecting back from falling rain. Anticrepuscular rays result from sunlight, blocked by some clouds, going all the way around the sky, overhead, and appearing to converge on the opposite horizon -- an ...