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By Tim Ruzek After more than a decade in Austin’s state park, the World War I cannon – believed to be a captured German ...
WW1 Trench Lighter Restoration. This lighter was found in the woods. The lighter of the revolver was broken and I decided to restore it. This lighter is from the First World War period. I removed the ...
French Open starting this week, BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team has profiled the man the tournament's stadium is named after ...
World War II saw some truly amazing innovations and feats of engineering. Actually, there were several pieces of equipment ...
Work has started to improve a World War One site which was deemed "at risk" by Historic England in 2023. The Heugh Battery in ...
This exodus from the war zone is expected to escalate until there are no armed Russians left in Ukraine. Ukrainian and Russian commanders believe the Russian war effort will collapse by late 2025.
In the second of a series of articles on the history of the 3rd Mons, local author Douglas McArthur recalls the Battalion's experiences during the First World War, specifically the hell and horror ...
Against a backdrop of intermittent machine-gun fire, he described the tanks heading towards him covered with people and the General himself entering the cathedral: War Report, BBC Home and Forces ...
Medieval Weapons and Armor used in WW1 Posted: May 8, 2025 | Last updated: May 8, 2025 Perhaps even more harrowing than the progression towards these new weapons, was the regression back towards ...
Winston Churchill announced the end of the War in Europe with a speech broadcast from Downing Street on 8 May 1945. He said "we may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing, but let us not ...
The British establish a secret facility at Porton Down to deal with the threat of chemical weapons. Spurred by the horrors of World War I, delegates in Switzerland create a Geneva Protocol banning ...