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  2. Attack of the Dead Men - Wikipedia

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    The Attack of the Dead Men, or the Battle of Osowiec Fortress, was a battle of World War I that took place at Osowiec Fortress (now northeastern Poland), on August 6, 1915. The incident got its name from the bloodied, corpse-like appearance of the Russian combatants after they were bombarded with a mixture of poison gases , chlorine and bromine ...

  3. List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...

  4. War photography - Wikipedia

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    Gardner and Brady rearranged bodies of dead soldiers during the Civil War in order to create a clear picture of the atrocities associated with battle. [23] In Soldiers on the Battlefield, Brady produced a controversial tableau of the dead within a desolate landscape. This work, along with Alexander Gardner's 1863 work, Home of a Rebel ...

  5. United States military casualties of war - Wikipedia

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    As of April 6, 1946, there were 539 American Military Cemeteries which contained 241,500 dead. Note the American Battle Monuments Commission database for the World War II reports that in 18 ABMC Cemeteries total of 93,238 buried and 78,979 missing and that "The World War II database on this web site contains the names of those buried at our ...

  6. Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War I - Wikipedia

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    Ottoman trenches on the shores of the Dead Sea at Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, by American Colony Jerusalem (edited by Durova) Sheep club poster at Sheep farming , by Breuker & Kessler, Co. (edited by Durova )

  7. List of battles by casualties - Wikipedia

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    World War II: 2,336 Battle of Midway: 1942 World War II: 3,364 Battle of Santa Cruz Islands: 1942 World War II: 766 Battle of Savo Island: 1942 World War II: 1217 Naval Battle of Casablanca: 1942 World War II: 636 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: 1943 World War II: 2,903 Battle of Leyte Gulf: 1944 World War II: 15,500 Battle of San Carlos: 1982 ...

  8. World War I casualties - Wikipedia

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    British and German wounded, Bernafay Wood, 19 July 1916. Photo by Ernest Brooks.. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [1] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.

  9. November 1918 - Wikipedia

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    It was the largest war ever fought until World War II 21 years later, with 40 million recorded military and civilian casualties including 9 to 15 million combat deaths. [ 91 ] American soldier Henry Gunther was killed by machine gun fire at the French village of Chaumont-devant-Damvillers , France one minute before the armistice went into ...