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Early life Augusta aged 14 in a family portrait of 1751 by George Knapton. Princess Augusta, aged 17, by Liotard. Princess Augusta was born at St. James's Palace.As she was the first born child of Frederick, Prince of Wales and the first born grandchild of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach, Augusta was second in line for the throne of Great Britain, which changed a year later ...
Feb 17, 2011 · The Allies were victorious in North Africa in May 1943 and invaded Italy in July of the same year. In June 1944 a massive Allied force landed on the Normandy coast in France, and Paris was ...
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- The Battle of Britain. Between June and October 1940, the RAF engaged in a deadly battle over the skies of southern England with wave after wave of Luftwaffe bombers and fighter planes.
- The Unsinkable Ship. Free from occupying forces, Britain became an unsinkable ship, able to launch constant bombing raids against German industrial, military, and civilian targets.
- The North African Campaign. Unable to fight in continental Europe, the British instead turned their attention to North Africa, fighting several battles against the Italians and the Germans to drive them from the continent.
- British Intelligence. The British knew they hadn’t much hope of taking the fight directly to the Germans at the start of the war, but what they did have was an intelligence network that was second to none.
t. e. In the United Kingdom, military conscription has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, and the second from 1939 to 1960. The last conscripted soldiers left the service in 1963. It was legally designated as "Military Service" from 1916 to 1920, and as "National Service" from 1939 to 1960.
Men aged 20 to 23 were required to register on 21 October 1939 - the start of a long and drawn-out process of registration by age group, which only saw 40-year-olds registering in June 1941. By ...
Jul 2, 2015 · Seventy-five years ago today on 2 July 1940, the SS Arandora Star, a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line, was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic en route to St John’s, Newfoundland. On board were 712 Italians, 438 Germans (including Nazi sympathisers and Jewish refugees), and 374 British seaman and soldiers. Over half […]
Badsey, Stephen: Great Britain (Version 1.1), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2017-03-09. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10974/1.1.
