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The post hospital had a staff of about 300 nurses who treated over 55,000 soldiers. [12] The nurses and doctors treated various cases including anthrax, pneumonia, measles, scarlet fever, mumps, and particularly the influenza virus. In the fall of 1918 the influenza epidemic reached Camp Merritt and caused devastation. [14]
Base Hospital No. 20, located in Châtel-Guyon, France, was one of the hundreds of Base Hospitals created to treat soldiers wounded during the First World War. It was created in 1916 by the University of Pennsylvania and served the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) until 1919.
September 6–9 – The army requisitions 600-1000 Paris taxis to transport 6000 soldiers 50 kilometers to the front lines in the First Battle of the Marne. [19] December 9 – The government and National Assembly return to Paris. El Ajedrecista automaton introduced at the University of Paris. 1915
The trouble was from the soldiers returning from the town, and rousing their campmates to return to the station to demand the release of their comrades. [29] Between 300 and 800 soldiers made their way to the police station, [ 30 ] [ 31 ] despite attempts by the senior Canadian officer—Major James Ross—and Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM ...
This change would be called the "New Negro Movement" and could be described as the radical political movement toward civil rights following World War I. [2] Emphasized in W.E.B. Du Bois's May 1919 Crisis editorial, "Returning Soldiers," in which he famously proclaimed, "We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting." .
At age 19, answering the call for soldiers after Fort Sumter was attacked in 1861, he enlisted in the Massachusetts Infantry, "unaware of what was to come," as Ryan writes in a brief summary.
The U.S. made its major contributions in terms of supplies, raw material, and money, starting in 1917. American soldiers under General of the Armies John Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), arrived at the rate of 10,000 soldiers a day on the Western Front in the summer of 1918.
American Base Hospital No. 1 was organized in Bellevue Hospital, NYC in September 1916. After the United States entered the war in April 1917 its soldiers, as part of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), began to arrive France later that year. To deal with casualties the AEF would take they set a series of hospitals throughout Europe.