Bloody Sunday took place on January 9, 1905 (in the Julian calendar), and on it a massacre of the population of Saint Petersburg was carried out by Russian troops. The Sunday Bloody It took place on January 9, in the Julian calendar (January 22, in the Gregorian calendar). At this event, the popula
The Thin Red Line is one of the legends of the history of wars. Although it predated the event that gave birth to the legend, yet it was on one particular occasion that the true legend blossomed. In 1854 the Crimean War was in full swing. On October 25, the British, French and Turks, on the one
Margaret Brown, known as the “unsinkable Molly”, in 1909. • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Despite its 1,500 deaths, the tragedy of the Titanic was not the most terrible in the history of shipwrecks. For example, those of two German ships sunk by Soviet submarines in 1945, the Wilhelm Gustloff (which was tra
Senegalese skirmishers are a body of soldiers formed within the French colonial Empire in 1857, the main element of the Black Force. In 1914-1918, around 200,000 Senegalese from the AOF fought in the French ranks, including more than 135,000 in Europe. 30,000 of them died there, and many returned i