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Canadian historian trying to link Cork man who fought in World War I with recently uncovered remains
A historian who identifies the remains of Canada’s war dead is currently working on the case of a Cork man who fought and died for the country in World War I.Alexandra McKinnon, a researcher for the ...
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What Was Daily Life Like in a WWI Trench? | Daily Routine of a British Soldier in the Trenches
We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...
On This Day: George Washington elected 1st U.S. president
George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...
How a bloody battlefield inspired a pacifist to create the Red Cross
Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...