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9 hours ago · November 2, 1918 (Saturday) Canadian and British forces captured Valenciennes, France in one of the last battles of World War I. [15] Canadian non-commissioned officer Sergeant Hugh Cairns successfully led the capture of several German machine gun nests the previous day before he was critically wounded.
9 hours ago · Hello and welcome to the History of the Germans: Episode 150 – The Last Chivalric Battles – Morgarten and Mühldorf, also episode 13 of Season 8: From the Interregnum to the Golden Bull. The 14 th century is a time of epic change in practically all areas of social, political and economic life. It is a time when the certainties of the Middle ...
9 hours ago · Cuza's successor, a German prince, Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (or Carol I), was elected in May. The parliament adopted the first constitution of Romania in the same year. The Great Powers acknowledged Romania's full independence at the Congress of Berlin and Carol I was crowned king in 1881.
1 day ago · County of Isenburg. Isenburg (pink, right) and Lower Isenburg (pink, left) around 1400. The County of Isenburg was a region of Germany located in southern present-day Hesse, located in territories north and south of Frankfurt. The states of Isenburg emerged from the Niederlahngau (located in the Rhineland-Palatinate ), which partitioned in 1137 ...
