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Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war ...
For the British, however, the battle was nothing short of a disaster, and was recorded in the British Official History of the War as "one of the most notable failures in British military history." [ 16 ] Casualties included 360 killed and 487 wounded on the British side; [ 2 ] the Schutztruppe lost 16 Germans and 55 Askaris killed, and 76 total ...
List of battles of the Eighty Years' War (1566–1648) Lists of battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815) List of American Civil War battles (1861–1865) List of costliest American Civil War land battles; List of naval battles of the American Civil War; List of military engagements of World War I (1914–1918)
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] More than 9 million combatants were killed , largely because of great technological advances in firepower without corresponding advances in mobility.
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Image credits: National Geographic #5. The 'Spanish Flu' actually likely got its start in Kansas, USA. It's only called the Spanish Flu because most countries involved in WWI had a near-universal ...
Afrikaans; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български