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On April 5, 2018, the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library announced that the 1918 Fort Caswell Rifle Range was one of the one hundred WWI memorials chosen for a restoration grant and honored with the official national designation as "WWI Centennial Memorial". [5]
Shark Island or "Death Island" was one of five concentration camps in German South West Africa. It was located on Shark Island off Lüderitz, in the far south-west of the territory which today is Namibia. It was used by the German Empire during the Herero and Namaqua genocide of 1904–08. [8]
The war and the massacres are both significantly featured in The Glamour of Prospecting, [22] a contemporary account by Frederick Cornell of his attempts to prospect for diamonds in the region. In the book, he describes his first-hand accounts of witnessing the concentration camp on Shark Island amongst other aspects of the conflict.
Shark Island (German: Haifischinsel) is a small peninsula adjacent to the coastal city of Lüderitz in Namibia. Its area is about 40 hectares (99 acres). Formerly an island , it became a peninsula from 1906 on by the creation of a wide land connection that doubled its former size.
Sited on the eastern tip of Oak Island in Brunswick County, NC, the fort juts into the confluence of the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean. The district's boundaries also extend a little over 1/2 mile south into the Atlantic Ocean and east into the Cape Fear River in recognition of the fort's association with blockade runners during the ...
Quick rising tides can “sweep someone off their feet and out to sea.”
Here's your guide to watching the 2024 Shark Week programming, plus the latest statistics on N.C., S.C. shark attacks.
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle [citation needed]) took place during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Liberty Military Reservation.