four years in the First World War, on the side of the Allies and against the Central Powers. Some 750,000 British men were killed in war during this...
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is a list of the last known surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) who lived to 1999 or later, along with the last...
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motorcycle crash List of professional cyclists who died during a race List of racing drivers who died in racing crashes Lists of people by cause of death "Yamaha...
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The identification of the causes of World War I remains a debated issue. World War I began in the Balkans on July 28, 1914, and hostilities ended on November...
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The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. An estimated...
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The British Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, the British...
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The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, sometimes known as the British Civil Wars, were a series of intertwined conflicts fought between 1639 and 1653 in the...
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World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central...
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During World War I (1914–1918), belligerents from both the Allied Powers and Central Powers violated international criminal law, committing numerous war crimes...
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World War I was the first major conflict involving the large-scale use of aircraft. Tethered observation balloons had already been employed in several...
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The United Kingdom was a leading Allied Power during the First World War of 1914–1918. They fought against the Central Powers, mainly Germany. The armed...
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The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths and about...
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soldiers ready for war. By the end of the First World War almost 25 percent of the total male population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had...
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overseas, of whom more than 60,000 died during the war. In World War I the Indian Army fought against the German Empire on the Western Front. At the First Battle...
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This is a list of the events of World War I in chronological order. Diplomatic history of World War I Albertini 1953, p. 38. Keegan 1998, p. 53. Lowe...
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The following is a non-exhaustive list of people who have declined a British honour, such as a knighthood or other grade of honour. In most cases, the...
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The United States declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917, nearly three years after World War I started. A ceasefire and armistice were declared...
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technology of warfare in general. This trend began at least fifty years prior to World War I during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, and continued...
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Parliamentary Archives, Peers War Memorial List of British parliamentarians who died in the First World War 51°30′00″N 0°07′31″W / 51.4999°N 0.1254°W...
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against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th...
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The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I saw action between 30 October 1914 and 30 October 1918. The combatants were, on one side, the Ottoman Empire...
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Britain First is a far-right, British fascist and neo-fascist political party and hate group formed in 2011 by former members of the British National Party...
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The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from...
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American Revolution (redirect from Causes of the revolutionary war)
within the British political system as British subjects, but later assembled to support the Revolutionary War, which successfully ended British colonial...
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and in 1998, the process was opened to all party members to decide between the last two candidates selected by parliamentarians. Under the party's rules...
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chronological list of the last surviving veterans of military insurgencies, conflicts and wars around the world. The listed wars span from the 13th century...
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the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters under the Earl of Leven defeated the Royalists commanded...
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During the First World War between 1914 and 1918, many Belgian refugees fled to the United Kingdom. Because archive material of the hundreds of local Belgian...
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My guilt over my great-uncle who died in the First World War". The Daily Telegraph. 1 November 2008. Archived from the original on 4 November 2008. Retrieved...
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Wartime sexual violence (redirect from Sexual violence in World War II)
of the first references to the "laws of war", or "traditions of war" was by Cicero, who urged soldiers to observe the rules of war, since obeying the...
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