We had Sylvestre take us on a private tour from Paris to the Verdun battlefield. From the first to the last, he was terrific. I wasn’t sure which battlefield to visit but when I wrote Sylvestre, he patiently explained the differences between the vari...
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. However at least sixteen roads in the UK are named after the Battle of Verdun, which is interesting given the fact that it was not a battle that British or Commonwealth troops were involved in. I suspect the majority of these (and indeed most other roads) could not be classed as war...
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Battle of TannenbergRussian prisoners captured at the Battle of Tannenberg, August 1914.(more) With the German declaration of war against Russia on August 1, 1914, all hope had been lost of the conflict between Serbia and Austria-Hungary remaining a localized affair. Armies were already mobilizing...
However, both the Merovingians and the Carolingians faced the claims of rival aristocratic families, including the Agilolfings, who also held the office of mayor of the palace. The victory of Pippin II over the Agilolfing mayor at the Battle of Tertry in 687 reunited the kingdom in the...
One of the professional nurses she employed, Ellen La Motte, would also publish in 1916 an appalling account of her front-line nursing in Belgium, The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse....