In the meantime, a group of officers in Poland had revolted against the reduction of the Polish army to 15,000 troops, a measure that had been imposed upon the country by the partition treaty. Kościuszko himself condemned their hastiness, but the march of events forced his hand. On March...
During the Revolutionary War, many local militias fought against the British. The sons and grandsons of our McDowell immigrants were members of the colonial Patriot forces who fought the British. Additionally, some were high-ranking officers and played significant roles in winning major battles, such...
The article focuses on the Katyn massacre, the mass murder of approximately 16,000 Polish officers by the Soviet Union's NKVD (Narodnyi komissariat vnutrennikh del) which occurred after the Soviet Union's invasion of Poland in 1939. Nazi... JP Fox - 《History Today》 被引量: 3发表: ...
From the Publisher:Berlin, March, 1943. A month has passed since the stunning defeat at Stalingrad [...] Now word has reached Berlin of a Red massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk [, Russia ...] For once, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels want ...
The catalog of acts of official disobedience in American practice has included such acts as, for example, the refusal to implement a directive of the Department of Homeland Security ordering a halt to the deportation of immigrants by officers of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the ...