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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 ...
Since early photographers were not able to create images of moving subjects, they recorded more sedentary aspects of war, such as fortifications, soldiers, and land before and after battle along with the re-creation of action scenes. Similar to battle photography, portrait images of soldiers were also often staged. In order to produce a ...
An advance patrol of the Gold Coast Regiment encountered the German-led police force on 7 August 1914 at a factory in Notsé, near Lomé, and the police force opened fire on the patrol. [3] Alhaji Grunshi returned fire, [ 6 ] the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the war. [ 3 ]
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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 )
The soldiers invaded villages and rounded up unarmed men, women and children. They were either shot dead, bayoneted to death or hanged. The victims were locked into barns and burned alive. Women were sent up to the front lines and mass-raped. The inhabitants of whole villages were taken as hostages, humiliated and tortured."
The first police casualties occurred when a group of six officers stumbled upon numerous armed soldiers. The soldiers fatally shot two policemen (including Daniels), and a third later died of wounds he had sustained. [8]: 527 As the soldiers moved through Houston, an open-topped car carrying a man in an olive-drab uniform approached them.
On Thursday night, eleven police officers were shot and five of them killed when a shooter opened fire at an anti-police brutality protest in Dallas. Dallas police shooting victims: These are the ...