In 1919, King George V of England proclaimed that Armistice Day be marked with two minutes of silence at 11 am, the hour the ...

U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney was assigned to an anti-tank company in Europe during the war, the Defense POW/MIA ...

On October 7, 1870, one of those minor, anecdotal episodes that pepper History amidst greater events took place. A hydrogen ...

The body of a man who was missing for 15 years has been found in the attic of a house purchased by new buyers. The discovery ...

In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...

Instead, they started calling their trusty soldier dogs “Alsatians”, which come from the area Alsace-Lorraine at the ...

German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace ... was gained in the eighteenth-century partitions of Poland and Alsace and Lorraine came with the defeat of France in 1870). Although Germans would ...

Invaded Territories Freed - Immediate evacuation of invaded territories, Belgium, France, Alsace-Lorraine and Luxembourg to be completed within 14 days. German troops who have not left these ...