It was a thriving city dominated by the English, Scottish, Irish, and French, and home to less than 250 Jews. Culturally, Montreal in the pre-Confederation period was definitely a British city. ..…
Continuing their service with Major-General French’s Division, the First Contingent helped the reorganised British forces, under commander-in-chief Field Marshal Lord Roberts, relieve the besieged diamond-mining town of Kimberley. ..…
As the British-Nigerian historian David Olusoga said in a talk at Tate Modern before The Head & the Load, “Indians, North Africans, French West Africans on parade was one of the great stories of the war that journalists couldn’t get enough of, because it was romantic and exotic. ... The..…
One important reason for this is the greater resistance of today's soldiers to disease whereas 18,000 British and French troops perished of cholera during Crimean War, in 2002, the number of British soldiers hospitalized Afghanistan on account of disease was twenty-nine, of. ..…
A French railway car soon arrived, carrying the Allied Commander-in-Chief, French Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch and British First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Rosslyn Weymyss, and their staffs. . . ..…
American, German, Dutch, British, French, and Polish officers meet often, plan frequently. . ..…
According to British historian Andrew Roberts, Pétain “participated enthusiastically in sending non-French Jews to the death camps—principally Auschwitz—in a way that the Germans simply did not have the manpower or local knowledge to achieve.” . ..…
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