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Apr 10, 2024 · Killed, wounded, and missing. The casualties suffered by the participants in World War I dwarfed those of previous wars: some 8,500,000 soldiers died as a result of wounds and/or disease. The greatest number of casualties and wounds were inflicted by artillery, followed by small arms, and then by poison gas.
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Apr 5, 2024 · "General Sir Arthur Currie led the Canadian Corps to a series of spectacular victories hastening the end of the Great War. Norm Christie retraces Currie's rise from amateur soldier to the most successful Allied general. He asks why Currie was feted throughout Europe and the Empire yet maligned by enemies and forgotten at home."
3 days ago · By 1914, 60% of the British Empire’s military optics were made in Germany, with 30% coming from France and only 10% produced domestically. With the outbreak of war, Britain suddenly found itself cut off from its biggest glass supplier.
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5 days ago · After a year of war, Sudan is world’s ‘forgotten crisis.’ Aid groups warn of mass death from hunger People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, in June 2023, just months into a war ...
3 days ago · The Battle of Okinawa ( Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [24] : 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. [25] [26] The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest ...
Mar 27, 2024 · The Dutch and the Belgians demonstrated against Napoleon. Napoleon I - Military Campaigns, Uneasy Peace: The first consul spent the winter and spring of 1799–1800 reorganizing the army and preparing for an attack on Austria alone, Russia having withdrawn from the anti-French coalition. With his usual quick assessment of the situation, he saw ...
