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German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).
This is a timeline of German history, ... 1812 The Prussian ... killing 71 Polish and Russian prisoners of war. Two more massacres would occur over the next three ...
William Eustis resigns as U.S. Secretary of War: 1812 Dec 3 home front James Monroe serves as U.S. Secretary of War 1812 Dec 18 Great Lakes region: Battle of the Mississinewa: Part of a U.S. expedition against Delaware and Miami villages where the Mississinewa River flows into the Wabash River near present-day Marion, Indiana. 1812 Dec 26 ...
War of 1812 prisoners of war held by the United States (11 P) This page was last edited on 23 March 2018, at 21:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
German prisoners of war in World War II (5 C, 202 P) Pages in category "German prisoners of war" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
After the devastating defeat of Napoleon's Grande Armée in the Russian campaign of 1812, Johann Yorck – the general in command of the Grande Armée's German auxiliaries (Hilfskorps) – declared a ceasefire with the Russians on 30 December 1812 via the Convention of Tauroggen. This was the decisive factor in the outbreak of the German ...
27 April – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883) [16] 14 May – Emilie Mayer, German composer (d. 1883) 9 June – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910) 24 December – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894) 28 December – Julius Rietz, German cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877) [17]
July 23/24, 1918 – Holzminden officers' prisoner-of-war camp. Ten of 29 British officers made their way to freedom, making this "the most successful escape from a German prison camp during the First World War". [8] 1918 – US Navy Lieutenant Edouard Izac was taken prisoner aboard the U-boat which sank his ship in May 1918. On the trip to ...