The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They took place on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (now Arlington), and Cambridge. The battles marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America.
A species of giant two-humped camel, Camelus knoblochi is known to , lived for about a quarter of a million years in Central Asia. A new study published in Frontiers in Earth Science shows that the last refuge of C. knoblochi it was in Mongolia, until about 27,000 years ago. In Mongolia, the latter
The Soviet attack against Finland was disastrous for the Red Army from the start. With the new year (1940) Stalin ordered the formation of a new Front (army group) headed by Tymoshenko. Zhukov was one of the bodyguards of the first. Tymoshenko was also endowed with new powers. Thus in January 19
Rifles. In 1800 Colonel Coote Manninghams experimental Rifle Corps was raised as the Riflemen and designated as the 95th Regiment on the General Army List. Meeting no difficulty in recruiting, this regiment had 3 battalions in 1809. Companies of these 3 battalions fought at Waterloo.The riflemens u
The German battleship (according to some battle cruiser) Gneisenau was the second ship of its class and brother of Scharnhorst. They were the first two German battleships built after World War I. The so-called pocket battleships were essentially large cruisers. Gneisenau had a full displacement o