The brigantine, which appeared in the age of the oar as a canvas version of the galley, was cut out for privateering. 150 barrels with one deck with mainmast, foresail and bowsprit, square sails, brigantines and jibs.
it underwent modifications of all kinds affecting especially the rigging and the sails, being transformed into 3 boat masts or brig-schooner with square sails and gaff aft
The Charton column:a disparate convoyCao Bang, October 3, 6 am. The fifteen outposts of the hedgehog defending the city are abandoned one after the other. The last position evacuated, the 150 tons of ammunition stored in the Citadel jump. It is a disparate convoy that engages on the R.C.4. The troop
As soon as we landed in Hanoi my four collaborators and I -even have been taken prisoner by the Japanese, without our American companions making a move to oppose the capture, by a common enemy who has been capitulating for a week, of Allied officers with whom they have been collaborating for several
The history of the chant “La Legion marches” is linked to the Condor Legion and the SS, German and French divisions. The Condor Legion was an air force formed from Nazi Germanys Luftwaffe personnel, which fought in Spain during the Civil War between January 1937 and April 1939. It was the first to s
The Germans began to leave Greece in September 1944. The threat of a Communist coup to take over the country as soon as the Germans left was obvious to most who followed the events of Greece.In September, Papandreou met with the military leaders of the E.L.A.S. and E.D.E.S. at Caserta, near Naples;