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Map of Beirut and its old city and bazaar from the Baedeker guide to 'Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus'. |
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1916-04-05, Beirut, Syria |
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Mounted reserves fording a stream on their way to Verdun, a photo from the archives of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News. The back of the photo is stamped Oct — 3 1916. A hand-written note indicates it would cover two columns on the home page. |
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Stamp: Oct — 3 1916
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Reserves on way to Verdun
The sector around Verdun still continues to be the scene of terrific fighting. Both the French and the Prussians continue in their attacks, and as a result troops are constantly being sent to take the places of fallen comrades.
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1916, 1916-04-08, Verdun, Battle of Verdun, horse, horses, French soldier, French reserves |
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Examples of mining and countermining a fortress, from the 1915 'Scientific American War Book: The Mechanism and Technique of Warfare. |
Mining and countermining in the attack and defense of a fortress. |
Scientific American, Scientific American War Book, mine, mining, sapper, undermining a fortress, undermining, countermining |
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Soldier 1914; Grave 1916. A mounted lancer, possibly an Uhlan, at the snow-covered grave of a German soldier. Likely by an Austro-Hungarian soldier: the text is in Czech. A pencil sketch by I.H. (?), field postmarked January 26, 1916. |
Vojínův 1914. Hrob. 1916.
Soldier 1914. Grave 1916.
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Grave, Czech, 1916, grave, I.H., Uhlan, 1916, 1916-01-26, 1916-04-10 |