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Between the peninsula and the Bering Sea runs the Kuril-Kamchatka ... with to extinction via encroachment, warfare, and disease. Small native ...

of launching it (a ship), having dug a trench under it, equal to the ship ... by the blocks. Some anti-submarine warfare warships have protruding ...

advance, the older men and women dug a trench parallel to Pyrrhus' ... assumed defensive positions behind their trench. They were encouraged by ...

which could be transported safely, would survive trench conditions, and which would not spoil in between the factory and the front lines. Throughout ...

resources, and were a portent of the trench warfare of World War I. ... to defensive forces, First World War trench warfare briefly revived a form ...

known for his harrowing poems on the horrors of trench and chemical warfare. Siegfried Sassoon had a profound effect on Owen's poetic voice, and ...

the infantry—but were designed for trench warfare. They were untroubled ... could overcome the obstacles of trench warfare. Mouquet Farm finally ...

the ground ensued, reminiscent of the trench warfare of World War I. The French ... someone adept at World War I-style trench warfare, something for which ...

and German Forces were stalled in trench warfare along the Western Front. ... for the Sea, and quickly extended their trench systems from the English ...

raids, infiltrations, or guerrilla warfare, are generally not considered ... examples. Such barriers have also included trench lines and, in more modern ...

Warfare and disease eventually reduced the number of Native Americans ... and Ontario). The Mackinac Strait, a deep trench separating the Upper and ...

symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare. In addition to remembrance, Memorial Day is also used as a time for picnics, barbecues, family gatherings ...

"rifled gun." Rifles are used in warfare, competitive target shooting ... ability to develop a way, during the trench warfare of WWI, to attack a trench ...

fitted with bayonets and became known as trench guns. Those without such ... Due to the cramped conditions of trench warfare, the American shotguns ...

the plans for battle had reverted to trench warfare with objectives being ... the Suvla front another case of static trench warfare. The offensive ...

Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation ...

Anti-tank warfare refers to any method of combating military armored ... In the area of anti-tank warfare, three terms are often used: "Mobility ...

infantry or cavalry). In modern armored warfare, armored units equipped ... like the foot soldiers, who at least had a trench to protect them. Machine ...

down into a stalemate on the Western Front. Trench warfare developed and neither side could achieve a successful breakthrough. In 1915, all attempts ...

===Trench warfare begins=== Trench warfare was the distinctive feature of the war. After the First ...

vehicle designed to engage enemies in warfare head-on, using direct fire ... while the tank would eventually make trench warfare obsolete, World War I ...

resulted in comparisons of the conflict to the trench warfare of World War I. The Eritrean defenses were eventually overtaken by a surprise Ethiopian ...

As the two armies faced the stalemate of trench warfare at Petersburg in July 1864, Burnside agreed to a plan suggested by a regiment of Pennsylvania ...

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polity in 562 C.E. after six years of warfare against an alliance of Calakmul ... ringing Tikal with a six meter wide trench behind a rampart. Only some ...

pilgrimage season, when all inter-tribal warfare was forbidden and they could ... against Medina. But Muhammad had dug a trench around Medina and successfully ...

symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare. An American YMCA Overseas War Secretaries employee, Moina Michael, was inspired to make 25 silk poppies ...

I was also the first in which submarine warfare was used extensively and ... shelf. The only exception is the Norwegian trench, which reaches from the Stad ...

weapons used by humankind. Modern warfare since the late Renaissance ... hollow-point) small-arms ammunition in warfare is also banned by the Convention ...

German forces, ill equipped for winter warfare and with overstretched supply ... The Germans, calling this unseen urban warfare Rattenkrieg ("rat war ...

had longer hair and beards. The trench warfare between 1914 and 1918 exposed men to lice and flea infestations, which prompted the order to cut ...

In 1900, Aguinaldo shifted from conventional to guerrilla warfare ... The shift to guerrilla warfare, however, only angered the Americans ...

Christmas Eve is the evening or day before Christmas Day, the widely celebrated annual holiday. It occurs on December 24 in Western Christianity ...

sea on one side and protected by a wide trench on the land sides. In 1540 ... Bolsheviks inspired and condoned civil warfare in and around Baku. During ...

* 1923, The ABC of Atoms, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. * 1924, Icarus, or the Future of Science, London: Kegan Paul, Trench ...

Steven J. Gunn described as historical "trench warfare." * Guilty of adultery: The English historian George W. Bernard argues that Anne ...

Doroteo Arango Arámbula (June 5, 1878 – July 23, 1923), better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary ...

These may include: Long dresses, scarves, trench coats, or loose belts. Also ... commonly applied to the use of increased force in warfare. ...

Despite this, Edward witnessed trench warfare firsthand and attempted to visit the front line as often as he could, leading to his award of the ...

where the two armies engaged in trench warfare for over nine months. ... to fully use its advantages in guerrilla warfare against Union communication ...

mineral extraction, power generation, warfare, and leisure activities ... Submarines became important in naval warfare in World War I, when ...

the use of tanks, rapid maneuvers and limited trench warfare. De Gaulle would also adopt some lessons, for his own military and political career, from ...

his sad fate: the young Kaemper was killed in trench warfare in World War I at the Battle of the Somme (1916) just eight years after his Mammoth Cave work. ...

enemy. The Gauls frequently used attrition warfare against them. While the ... decisive factor: grand Roman-style siege warfare was unknown to the Gauls ...

the Somme (1916) until he came down with trench fever on October 27, 1916 ... with monsters rather than realistic tribal warfare; Tolkien argued that the ...

with Rheumatism resulting from the damp of trench warfare. While he was recovering, his friend Bruno Loerzer convinced him to transfer to the Luftstreitkräfte ...