Sixteen pre-dreadnoughts served during World War II in such roles as hulks, accommodation ships, and training vessels; two of the German training vessels Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein undertook naval gunfire support in the Baltic.
Nominally, the goumiers were under the control of the Sultan of Morocco, but in practice they formed an extension of the French Army and subsequently fought for France in third countries(see below).
The percentage of cases of Hodgkin's Lymphoma amongst Italian troops who served in Bosnia and Kosovo is more than double the amount found in soldiers who stayed in Italy,” he told IWPR.
Parliamentarian soldiers who served in Ireland were entitled to an allotment of confiscated land there, in lieu of their wages, which the Parliament was unable to pay in full.
However, by the end of the War, an estimated 100,000 escaped slaves sought refuge with the British, an estimated 20,000 of them served in the army, though the majority served in noncombatant roles.
Porter was soon restored to command of the corps by McClellan and led it through the Maryland Campaign, where the corps served in a reserve position during the Battle of Antietam.
It was very funny, after serving in the Marines, I went to the employment office and they saw that I was from Kentucky and so they automatically figured I must like animals.
By the end of the eight year war 250,000 men had served as regulars or militiamen for the Revolutionary cause, but there were not more than 90,000 men under arms at any given time.
A veteran of World War I, Lowe helped plan the postwar demobilization of the German army, and served in the Socialization Committee which sought to nationalize the German economy.
Over a decade later, President Roosevelt was leading the country through World War II and Ridings was serving as a corporal in the Women's Army Corps(WAC).
Dubbed the"Silent Captain of the Red Sox" by teammate Ted Williams, Doerr spent his entire 14-year career with the team, missing only the 1945 season while serving in the Army during World War II.
In 1775, both English and Praying Indian citizens of Natick participated in the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, as well as serving in the Continental Army.
Mild West Coast Vancouver is Canada's best city for cherry blossoms, thanks to a generous 1930s gift from Japan: hundreds of trees as a thank-you to Japanese-Canadians who served in WWII.
The details how she served in the war and what she did in the barrack hospital being found in her biography, Nightingale realized that the majority of the deaths at the hospital resulted from insanitation in the hospital from her experience of nursing.
Like the millions of other British soldiers who served in WW1, Grandad's records show three stamps confirming that he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal 1914-15, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
A former US Marine who served in the first Gulf War, made a very compelling case in late December 2002 that tens of thousands of people from the US and Europe should go to Iraq to act as human shields.
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