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9TH SEPT. MOND. 10:25 A.M. Came to Monument to 7 men massacred—50 yds left of road 18 May 1871 - - - Inscribed as follows: Sacred to the memory of seven brave men killed by Indians at this place on Thurs. May 18 ’71 while in discharge of their duty defending their train against 150 Comanche Indians. N. S. Song—Wagon master.
During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs that had either been vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war, or had been created as part of the war effort. The high demand for weapons and the overall wartime situation resulted in munitions factories collectively becoming the largest employer of American women by ...
At Ypres, many men died by drowning in thick, liquid mud and fighting conditions were awful [5] The Gallipoli Campaign involved the death of many Australian Allied soldiers because of the positioning of the peninsula. The Ottoman soldiers were able to position themselves at the top of a hill while all of the Allied soldiers remained at the bottom.
The first police casualties occurred when a group of six officers stumbled upon numerous armed soldiers. The soldiers fatally shot two policemen (including Daniels), and a third later died of wounds he had sustained. [8]: 527 As the soldiers moved through Houston, an open-topped car carrying a man in an olive-drab uniform approached them.
Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam, 1862, Alexander Gardner. War photography involves photographing armed conflict and its effects on people and places. Photographers who participate in this genre may find themselves placed in harm's way, and are sometimes killed trying to get their pictures out of the war arena.
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and their Forgotten World War (2013) Snell, Mark A., ed. Unknown Soldiers: The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory and Remembrance (Kent State UP, 2008). Trout, Steven. On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 (University of Alabama Press, 2010)
In 1917, during the First World War, the armies on the Western Front continued to change their fighting methods, due to the consequences of increased firepower, more automatic weapons, decentralisation of authority and the integration of specialised branches, equipment and techniques into the traditional structures of infantry, artillery and cavalry.
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