Less than a year before the end of World War II, then US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish ...

Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent mortality rate. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, despite the lessons learned in the Civil War and the ...

It all started with a letter to The Times. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870, Colonel Robert Loyd-Lindsay, a war veteran who had witnessed the suffering of soldiers in the ...

After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II -- along with the failed Versailles peace treaty of 1919 -- the Allies in World War II wanted to ensure there would ...

The great great grandson of a Prussian Kürassier from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, as well as a great great nephew of a member of Kaiser Franz Joseph's body guard regiment, Hermann became a ...

After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II – along with the failed Versailles peace treaty of 1919 – the Allies in World War II wanted to ensure there would ...

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He gives us a look at Moltke’s early life and military education, his impressive scholarly interests, his service in the Turko-Egyptian War, the political and military developments in the German ...

With the column and the figure the monument is altogether 38 meters high The whole complex is a monument to the 25 years of peace after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and was inaugurated in 1899.