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Arthur Wellesley (30 April 1769, Duncan-Castle, County Meath – 14 September 1852), 1st Earl then Marquess then Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who became a British soldier and politician. He is best known as Napoleons victor at Waterloo. He is often compared to John Churchill, Du
On June 22, 1944, the largest Soviet attack on the Eastern Front took place (Operation Bagration). The following day the 1st Belorussian Front (formation equivalent to Army Group in the Western armies), under Rokosovsky, began its attack against the German 9th Army, which covered the front of Army G
In Ekaterinburg, the royal family lodged in the Ipatiev villa, surrounded by a palisade so high that from inside you could not see the tops of the trees growing outside. A few days after the arrival of the family members, the jailers paint the tiles of their rooms white. It is in this house that in