The Marshal in the Great War At the beginning of 1916, Pétain was sixty years old and he was appointed to defend Verdun. After he was finally found in Paris, in the company of Eugénie Hardon, his regular, he moved with his staff to the town hall of Souilly. There, he is appreciated by the soldiers,
On January 12, 1945, the Soviets attacked the German front, which stretched from Hungary to the Baltic. They threw into battle a huge force, consisting of 180 infantry divisions and about 6,000 tanks. The German positions were naturally pulverized. From East Prussia and Poland, the Soviets poured
USS Scorpion was an American nuclear submarine of the Skipjack class. Commissioned in 1959. Nine years later she mysteriously disappeared south of the Azores while on patrol. The submarine stopped giving signs of life on May 21, 1968. The U.S. Navy admitted that the vessel disappeared on June 6
The 1st Foreign Regiment (1er RE) is the oldest of the regiments of the Foreign Legion. He has been stationed in the Vienot district of Aubagne since 1962, when he arrived from Sidi Bel Abbès. Created in 1841, it is the dean of the Legion regiments. Beyond this historical aspect, the 1er RE represe