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Who Cleaned Up the Carnage After Napoleon’s Battles?
Battlefield tidying during the Napoleonic Wars was a grim business—and we do mean business.
WAR
Armageddon – The Somme
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 242nd installment in the series.
Somme Bombardment Begins
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 241st installment in the series.
U.S. Mobilizes Troops, Vows to Pacify Border
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 240th installment in the series.
Germans Capture Fort Vaux
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 239th installment in the series.
Silly String Has a Real Purpose: Exposing Trip Wires
Soldiers have used the sticky party toy to help scan areas for explosives.
Russians Launch Brusilov Offensive, Arab Revolt Begins
Day of the Dreadnoughts – Jutland
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 237th installment in the series.
15 Incredible Monuments That Honor American Soldiers
These monuments and memorials remember America’s military service members with gratitude and respect.
French Fail To Retake Fort Douaumont
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 236th installment in the series.
English Nonprofit Will Preserve WWI Conscientious Objectors' Jail Graffiti
The Richmond 16 were imprisoned in England in 1916 for refusing to aid the war effort.
Austrians Launch “Punishment Expedition” Against Italy
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 235th installment in the series.
Britain, France Slice Up Ottoman Empire
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 234th installment in the series.
British Crush Easter Rising
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 233rd installment in the series.
Sybil Ludington: The 16-Year-Old Revolutionary Who Outrode Paul Revere
Sybil Ludington's ride through the New York countryside to rouse the troops was longer and more difficult than Paul Revere's.
Russians Capture Trabzon
Brits Fail To Lift Kut Siege
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 231st installment in the series.
Sussex Torpedoed, Rasputin’s Influence Grows
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 230th installment in the series.
Russians Attack At Lake Naroch
Germans Widen Verdun Attack
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 228th installment in the series.
The Struggle for Douaumont
Russians Conquer Erzurum, Cameroon Falls
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 225th installment in the series.
Verdun Attack Delayed
The War In The Air
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 223rd installment in the series.