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A Times correspondent wrote that the British soldiers called the "Boris" point "the valley of death." [7] Though the artillery duel continued until 9 May, the British had to abandon all attacks due to heavy casualties. They lost 12,000 killed, wounded and captured, of which the Bulgarian defenders buried 2,250.
The British and the Greeks set off from their base at Thessaloniki at the same time as the French and the Serbs.The British and the Greeks, under the command of George Milne set off the attack on the Bulgarian positions at Dojran while the French and the Serbs under the command of Franchet d'Esperey went to penetrate the Bulgarian defences in the Vardar Valley.
In this location – later called the Valley of Death – paramilitary members of the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz and officers of the Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1,200 and 3,000 residents of Bydgoszcz and nearby localities in the autumn of 1939. Most of the Valley of Death victims were members of the Polish and Jewish intelligentsia, as ...
Valley of Death (Polish: Dolina Ĺmierci) in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II and a mass grave of 1,200–1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo.
As the temperature climbed to a record 128 degrees in Death Valley National Park, a group of motorcyclists was sickened by the heat, and one died.
Park officials have a list of suggestions for Death Valley visitors to stay safe during summer trips, including applying plenty of sunscreen, wearing a hat, staying hydrated, carrying snacks, not ...
The Valley of Death, a nickname for the Korangal Valley in Afghanistan where 54 U.S. servicemen died during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Valley of Death, a nickname for the highly polluted city of Cubatão, Brazil; Valley of Death, a nickname for the Bay of Biscay where several U-boats sank from air attacks from 1943 onwards (World War II)
A historic wooden tower was inadvertently felled by a traveler who used it to winch a vehicle stuck in mud in California's Death Valley National Park, federal officials said.