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Battle of Liège; A diagram of the fortifications surrounding the city. The Battle of Liège was the first battle of the war, and could be considered a moral victory for the allies, as the heavily outnumbered Belgians held out against the German Army for 12 days. From 5 to 16 August 1914, the Belgians successfully resisted the numerically ...
A knight (Jan I van Brabant) flying a heraldic flag in battle, in addition to the heraldic device displayed on his shield (Codex Manesse, c. 1304). A war ensign, also known as a military flag, battle flag, or standard, [1] is a variant of a national flag for use by a country's military forces when on land.
The details above and following are taken from "The Army Flag and Its Streamers", a pamphlet which was originally prepared in 1964 by the Office of the Chief of Military History, in cooperation with the Office of the Chief of Information and the U.S. Army Exhibit Unit, to provide general summaries of each of the campaign ribbons authorized to ...
Sheringham (/ ˈ ʃ ɛr ɪ ŋ ə m /; population 7,367) is a seaside town and civil parish in the county of Norfolk, England. [2] The motto of the town, granted in 1953 to the Sheringham Urban District Council, is Mare Ditat Pinusque Decorat, Latin for "The sea enriches and the pine adorns".
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. It was the sixth deadliest conflict in world history ...
New York: Facts on File. OCLC 402845061. Gretton, Peter (1969). Winston Churchill and the Royal Navy. New York: Coward McCann. OCLC 1178658197. Halpern, Paul G. (1994). A naval history of World War I. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870212664. Herman, Arthur (2004). To rule the waves : how the British Navy shaped the modern world. New ...
In 1906, official histories were being written by three departments at the War Office and one in the Admiralty. Lord Esher, a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence, suggested that a subcommittee be established as the Historical Section, to centralise the collection of army and navy archives, as a repository of the lessons of war for strategists.