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English: Charles Minard's 1869 chart showing the number of men in Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign army, their movements, as well as the temperature they encountered on the return path. Lithograph, 62 × 30 cm
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille (French: [ʒɑ̃batist‿edwaʁ dətaj]; 5 October 1848 – 23 December 1912) was a French academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army".
During World War I, the United States Army formed its divisions as square divisions, in contrast to the prevailing European norm. [1] The United States had the manpower to form the divisions, and expected to be engaging in more offensive operations as the trench warfare stalemate, which consumed so much of the war on the Western Front, was broken late in the war. [2]
A citadel is the most fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle , fortress , or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of city , meaning "little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core.
Six variables are plotted: the size of the army, its location on a two-dimensional surface, direction of the army's movement, and temperature on various dates during the retreat from Moscow". Proposed caption This 1861 diagram by Charles Joseph Minard illustrates the advance and retreat of Napoleon's army in Russia from 1812 to 1813. The ...
William B. T. Trego was born in Yardley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1858, the son of the artist Jonathan Kirkbridge Trego and Emily Roberts née Thomas. At the age of two William's hands and feet became nearly paralyzed, either from polio, or from a doctor administering a dose of calomel (mercurous chloride).
Harvey Thomas Dunn NA, also known as J. Harvey Dunn (March 8, 1884 – October 29, 1952), [1] was an American painter and teacher. During World War I, Dunn was an artist-correspondent with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
Map Intelligence, Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, US Army, Ed 2, 1954, pp 14–15, 228–257. Charts for the Air Force, an address by COL Richard Philbrick, Commander USAF Aeronautical Chart and information Center, at the National Convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 17 Jun 1955.