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How many battles occurred in the First Opium Wars? How many Chinese men were addicted to opium during the Opium War? How much opium was sold before the First Opium War? How many British ships were lost in the Opium Wars? How many Chinese died during the Korean War?
How many people were killed in the Battle of France? How many German soldiers died in WW1? How many women died in World War I? How many died at the Battle of Agincourt? How many women died in WWII? How many people died in the Napoloeonic Wars?
But in 1989 the Pentagon began revising the totals because "other deaths" included U.S. military deaths worldwide during the three years of the war, rather than just those soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who died in and around the Korean peninsula. In the 1994 version of its annual ...
(Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970) The Civil War was the deadliest of all American wars. No one disagrees with that. But how many died has long been a matter of debate. For more than a century, the most-accepted estimate was about 620,...
Agent Orange has been linked to many health problems in Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese civilians. Thousands have died from conditions likely brought on by exposure to Agent Orange. The herbicide, and its component dioxin, is considered to be one of the most dangerous substances in the world ...
While military records clearly showed that thousands of troops perished during the initial phases of the months-long Normandy Campaign, it wasn’t nearly as clear when many of the troops were actually killed. In the chaos of the beach landings, for example, some soldiers ended up fighting, and...
Soldiers, civilians, as well as paramilitary and terrorist groups, have been building and detonating homemade bombs for years. During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong hid IEDs in soda cans because they observed that U.S. soldiers liked to kick empty cans while marching along the roads [so...
But during these raids, many Rangers were lost, and out of necessity, the Rangers adopted a new tradition of replenishing their ranks by absorbing other companies and groups of soldiers who had shown skill and fortitude in other operations. These select remnant groups have come out on top again...
He came to China to help the Chinese and died for them. Norman Bethune was born in 1890. He became a doctor in 1916 and went to Spain in 1936 to treat the wounded soldiers during the war there. He soon realized that many were dying because they did not get to hospi...