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Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen; [1] "to drag along the keel") is a form of punishment and potential execution once meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel , either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ...
Two centuries later Guillaume le Vasseur, sieur de Beauplan became one of the more prominent cartographers working with Ukrainian data. His 1639 descriptive map of the region was the first such one produced, and after he published a pair of Ukraine maps of different scale in 1660, his drawings were republished [by whom?] throughout much of Europe. [2]
Operation Keelhaul was a forced repatriation of Soviet citizens and members of the Soviet Army in the West to the Soviet Union (although it often included former soldiers of the Russian Empire or Russian Republic, who did not have Soviet citizenship) after World War II.
Google has updated it's aerial maps of Ukraine for the first time since the start of Russia's attack - with images now revealing the full scale of devastation. The contrast is stark in Mariupol.
On Friday, seven months after it began its brutal invasion, President Vladimir Putin annexed four Ukrainian regions — the largest takeover of territory in Europe since World War II.
Earlier this month, when Tucker Carlson asked Vladimir Putin about his reasons for invading Ukraine two years ago, Putin gave him a lecture on Russian history. The 71-year-old Russian leader spent ...
In 1639, Beauplan created the first "descriptive" map of Ukraine. [3] He created a map of Ukraine in 1648 that had detailed border information. [2] By 1654 he was working in Danzig. He created a map with a scale of 1:452,000 and an additional map scaled at 1:1,800,000. Both maps were engraved by Willem Hondius. These maps would go on to be ...
As Russian forces make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's military stages a surprise cross-border attack. Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia Skip to main content