General Falkenhayn ... Togo in Africa saw the first battle between Allied and German forces in World War One. They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day ...

South Africa and India. The British generals staged a massive artillery bombardment and sent 100,000 men over the top to take the German trenches. They were confident of victory. But the British ...

Smithsonian collections document the patriotic service of African Americans throughout our Nation's history, from the American Revolution up to today. At the National Museum of African American ...

375 Webley and Scott hunting rifle and fired the shot that killed a German soldier, Herr Friedrich Broecker, who became the first causality of WWI in East Africa. In the meantime, some of the ...

The action was particularly important because as a consequence of the battle, the German East Asia Squadron ... light on what was a defining point in WWI, and therefore a landmark moment in ...

a WWI ship that sank after being torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1914. Diver Steve Mortimer told the BBC that the wreck is a "really remarkable time capsule." The Tobol had been missing for over ...

In late August, after several months of reinforcing the French, America's General Pershing finally ... or "salient" in the German lines near St. Mihiel. MacArthur's Rainbow Division was in the ...

The ruse worked. The two German generals, Erich von Falkenhayn and Friedrich Kress-von Kressenstein, convinced the Turkish general of Gaza, Djevad Pasha, and his shadow, Enver Pasha, to ...

Reenlisting at the outbreak of World War II, Roosevelt led four amphibious assaults, from Operation Torch - the invasion of ...

Africa Renewal is a United Nations digital magazine that covers Africa’s economic, social and political developments. We cover the challenges the continent faces and the solutions to these by ...