Colonial Wars -A series of wars involving the colonizing European powers of England, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden in North America and the Caribbean. King William's War, (1689-1697)-Known in Europe as the War of the League of Augsburg AND as the War of the Grand Alliance ...
Benjamin Bathurst (18 March 1784 – 1809?) was a British diplomatic envoy who disappeared in Germany during the Napoleonic Wars. He was the third son of Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich. His sister was the poet Caroline de Crespigny.Bathurst disappeared on or about 25 November 1809, sparking...
It reminded me of Darryl Li’s excellent ethnography The Universal Enemy, which tells the story of the Yugoslavian wars through the mujahideen that fought in them. The soldiers that Li interviews enlisted for practical as well as ideological reasons; they fought so they might belong to the new...
Sheryl CrowandSinbad. I traveled with them on a trip to Bosnia withHillary Clinton. They were entertaining the troops. But first lady Hillary Clinton and her daughter were on a work trip and I was there covering it. I mention them briefly in light of the fact that I did the story that...
Though she contributed to much of the early work, she quickly created her own alias 'Gerda Taro' and they began to publish their work separately. He subsequently covered five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,...