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	Great War on Encyclopedia.com
		Their deaths bought our peace; Soldiers of the Liverpool Scottish have just returned from the fields of France and Belgium, where thousands of their comrades were killed in the Great War.(Features)
		Honour for brave battalion proud of their adopted city; A simple monument will be unveiled this weekend on a World War I battlefield - 90 years after the saddest day of the Liverpool Scottish David Charters...
		Poignant reminders of the war to end all wars.(News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-G1reatW1ar.asp

	Isaac Rosenberg, War poets,world war one, 1914-18, great war, poetry, war poems, war graves, British soldiers, Arras,Jewish, Jews, Gavrelle
		Ironically Rosenberg ketched very little of the war he saw and experienced, most of the sketches were portraits of his comrades which he gave away for them to send home, (COHEN, 1975).
		There are 26 British and commonwealth war poets buried on the Western Front; six of these have 'no known grave', and have their name comemorated on the memorials to the missing, (CWGC, information sheet).
		Rosenberg was 27 years old when killed in the last year of the war, it was a slow process before he became acknowledged as on of the leading war poets.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/kylet1/ros1.htm

	Starfish Greathearts Foundation - Events
		Comrades began in response to the devastation of a previous war, as a "living memorial to the spirit of the soldiers of the Great War".
		Starfish has received approval from the Comrades Marathon Association for the "Return of the Greathearts", whereby runners agree to raise sponsorship for a specifically identified orphan, thereby generating awareness and funding for the children of our country orphaned by AIDS.
		Comrades encapsulates so many of the wishes and dreams we all have for this land, so torn apart for too many years.
	www.starfishcharity.org /events/event.asp?id=13&page=1 (323 words)

	Welcome to South Africa
		His enquiry led him to the doors of the League of Comrades of the Great War a corpus of ex-soldiers who had formed an association to foster the interests of their living companions who had survived the War.
		The Comrades Marathon is arguably the greatest ultra marathon in the world.
		The Comrades Marathon is restricted to registered runners only.
	www.southafrica.net /index.cfm?SitePageID=14077 (783 words)

	Stalin's Great Terror: Origins and Consequences
		Those leaders who survived the Great Terror in the various communist parties had largely degenerated, and were bound to Stalin because they had taken part in the persecution of their own comrades.
		However the consequences of the Great Terror cannot simply be measured by the murder and arrest of thousands and thousands of victims in the Soviet Union, of people extremely dedicated to the October revolution and to socialism.
		So, although it happened decades ago, the consequences of the Great Terror are still being felt in our country and in the 15 new states which have formed in the ruins of the Soviet Union; and all of these nations are facing catastrophic conditions.
	www.wsws.org /exhibits/1937/lecture1.htm (783 words)

	IlGenWeb Civil War Project - Scrapbook, 115th Reunions, page 2
		The success of the soldiers at the front in all the wars especially that of the Civil and spanish American wars was due in a great measure to reserve force.
		Schneider Thursday at the reunion of Col. D, at Layton, and was a souvenir of the civil war much prized, not only by the possessor, but by all who had the privilege of holding it in their hands for even a moment.
		Schneider, of St. Louis, was present at the reunion of Co. D for the first time and this was his first meeting with Capt. Hymer and his comrades since he met them on the night of that ever memorable day at the "block house" near Dalton, Ga., 1864.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ilcivilw/scrapbk/reunion2.html (783 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Three Comrades
		Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness that made All Quiet on the Western Front a classic, Three Comrades portrays the greatness of the human spirit, manifested through characters who must find the inner resources to live in a world they did not make, but must endure.
		This is a book of three veterans of World War I trying to continue life in Germany after the war.
		I don't think anyone can fully define what a great book the three comrades is. No one can describe the love between Pat and Robert throughoutly.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316739944?v=glance (783 words)

	Great Sikh warriors at www.sikh-history.com
		The rapid march in November 1845 of the governor-general towards the frontier and a report of Sir Charles Napier's speech in the Delhi Gazette saying that the British were going to war with the Sikhs filled Lahore with rumours of invasion.
		In the midst of these treacheries, a Sikh warrior, Sham Singh Attarivala, symbolizing the unflinching will of the Khalsa, vowed to fight unto the last and fall in battle rather than retire in defeat.
		British preparations for a war with the Sikhs began seriously in 1843 when the new governor-general, Lord Ellenborough (1842-44), discussed with the Home government the possibilities of a military occupation of the Punjab.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/events/anglosikhwars.html (783 words)

	Comrades 2003 - 1
		The Comrades Marathon started in 1921 when 34 determined runners left Pietermaritzburg for Durban to commemorate their comrades who fell during the Great War.
		The Comrades Marathon is a cherished national treasure and attracts thousands of runners, spectators and television viewers every year.
		The coastal regions being lush with green sub-tropical vegetation, the Midlands with its rolling grass hills and meandering lanes and finally the giant basalt peaks of the breathtaking Drakensberg Mountains.
	homepages.tesco.net /~roger.biggs/comrades03-1.html (1218 words)

	Samuel Hamilton Walker: An Inventory of Papers at the Texas State Archives, 1836-1905, [ca. 1982], undated
		He was a Northern Civil War hero and author of The Great Conspiracy.
		Walker is not in the slightest cowed but is determined to revenge the deaths of his comrades.
		Walker performed valuable scouting duty during the summer and fought in the battle of Monterrey in September 1846.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/40033/tsl-40033.html (7002 words)

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		The Swabian Kiarbe is not only a religious holiday, but also a great family feast; when relatives, friends, and war comrades in neighboring towns came to a reunion with the members of the celebrating town.
		So the events of the war and after the war destroyed the former community of the town, and the German inhabitants in their search for a place to live were scattered throughout the world.
		During the war, the Nazis took all of the Jewish families to the extermination camps.
	www.scheindorf.de /sb1.html (7002 words)

	Isaac Rosenberg, War poets,world war one, 1914-18, great war, poetry, war poems, war graves, British soldiers, Arras,Jewish, Jews, Gavrelle
		Ironically Rosenberg ketched very little of the war he saw and experienced, most of the sketches were portraits of his comrades which he gave away for them to send home, (COHEN, 1975).
		There are 26 British and commonwealth war poets buried on the Western Front; six of these have 'no known grave', and have their name comemorated on the memorials to the missing, (CWGC, information sheet).
		Rosenberg was 27 years old when killed in the last year of the war, it was a slow process before he became acknowledged as on of the leading war poets.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/kylet1/ros1.htm (2042 words)

	Great Meadows on Encyclopedia.com
		Their deaths bought our peace; Soldiers of the Liverpool Scottish have just returned from the fields of France and Belgium, where thousands of their comrades were killed in the Great War.(Features)
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-G1reatM1ea.asp (408 words)

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		The Comrades Marathon, an ultra distance foot race of nearly 90 km run annually between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, was founded by Vic Clapham in 1921 as an inspirational memorial to those who served in the Great War of 1914-1918.
		Comrades Marathon House is easily accessible from the N3.
		Connaught is the second on the left after the second robot and is signposted Comrades Marathon House.
	pmb-midlands.kzn.org.za /pmb-midlands/about/44.xml (224 words)

	Research and Remembrance - Celtic Football Club
		Of the 908,371 British and Commonwealth soldiers killed during the Great 1914-18 War, 7 of them were on the books of Celtic.
		The only difference is that their names live on in the form of a Club war memorial at Haymarket Station.
		As one of those 165 who is still 'missing' Leigh's name is inscribed on the massive Thiepval Memorial to his 72,000 other comrades who died in the Battle who also have no known grave.
	www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk /celtic.htm (1768 words)

	War and Anti-War Films
		The Big Parade (1925) was a new kind of war film, and the first to realistically portray the horrors of battle and the struggle for survival by three soldier-comrades (a bartender, a riveter, and a millionaire's son) in the trenches.
		Possibly the greatest anti-war film ever made, it was based upon the novel by Erich Maria Remarque that viewed the Great War from the German point of view.
		War films have often been used as 'flag-waving' propaganda to inspire national pride and morale, and to display the nobility of one's own forces while harshly displaying and criticizing the villainy of the enemy, especially during war or in post-war periods.
	www.filmsite.org /warfilms.html (2153 words)

	America's Civil War Magazine
		Disliked and distrusted by their comrades in the Army of the Potomac, the men of the XI Corps would find their reputation further damaged by a twilight encounter with Stonewall Jackson's troops in the dark woods at Chancellorsville.
		Excerpts from Joseph Scroggs' diary provide his observations on the service of Negro troops under his command on the Civil War battlefields.
		What other Civil War myths are you aware of?
	www.historynet.com /acw (292 words)

	John Brown Gordon, 1832-1904. Reminiscences of the Civil War
		It was the great political factor around which the passions of the sections had long been gathered--the tallest pine in the political forest around whose top the fiercest lightnings were to blaze and whose trunk was destined to be shivered in the earthquake shocks of war.
		From great leaders and constitutional expounders, from schools and colleges, from debates in Congress, in the convention that adopted the Constitution, and from discussions on the hustings, we had learned the lesson of the sovereignty of the States.
		Around the great circular room, at intervals, drooped the flag of his beloved Confederacy, for which he had given the first blood of his young manhood, and the flag of a reunited country, to which he had given the richest offerings of his mature years.
	docsouth.unc.edu /gordon/gordon.html (16050 words)

	Royal Pioneer Corps & Royal Pioneer Association
		This website is dedicated to the memory of the men who served in the British Army�s Labour Corps during the Great War.
		The Army Benevolent Fund is committed to the welfare of Regular and Territorial Army personnel, those who are no longer serving and their families, when they are in real need.
		The association for all current members and past members of the British Army
	www.royalpioneercorps.co.uk /rpc/links.htm (16050 words)

	The Royal Welch Fusiliers Comrades Website
		However it was not until the Great War that "The Royal Welch Fusiliers Comrades Association" was founded, and 1925 before a trust deed officially laying out the purposes of the association was registered in the "Central Office of the Supreme Court of Judicature".
		This is a typical photograph taken every year during the Annual Comrades Reunion Weekend, held every year at Hightown Barracks, Wrexham, North Wales, UK hotograph taken of R.W.F Comrades outside the Guildhall,Wrexham.
		Membership of the association is restricted to any individual of any rank who is serving, or has served,in the regiment or any of its Militia Service Special Reserve,Volunteer or Territorial Battalions or in any unit duly authorised and recognised by the Army Council as belonging to or forming of any part of the Regiment.
	www.wrexham-connection.co.uk /rwf.htm (16050 words)

	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 106-47 BC
		Alone, the great Pompey was lured toward a supposed audience on shore in a small boat in which he recognized two old comrades-in-arms from the glorious, early battles.
		" The great power in the city which was rightly his was used by him wrongly in the interests of others; as he strengthened them, so he weakened his own reputation till, before he realized what was happening, he found himself ruined by the very force and greatness of his own power.
		With Tigranes as a friend and ally of Rome, the chain of Roman protectorates was extended as far east as the Black Sea and the Caucasus.
	heraklia.fws1.com /contemporaries/pompey (4133 words)

	The Luck of the Irish - In the movies, IRA terrorists become dashing heroes. By James Surowiecki
		And Neil Jordan's Michael Collins (1996) sympathetically portrayed Collins and his comrades in the 1918-1921 Irish war for independence from Britain--a war won in part by Collins' strategy of bombings and late-night assassinations.
		Northern Ireland was split off from the rest of the country in 1921, as part of the peace agreement that ended the Irish war for independence (an agreement negotiated by Michael Collins).
		Yet all these films are suffused with a sense of the basic justice of the Irish nationalist cause and, more than that, of the purity of the motives that drive the IRA.
	www.slate.com /id/3141/device/html40/workarea/3 (1366 words)

	World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I
		Vasily Bezugly was one of those Russians and this page contains some of his thoughts and remembrances of that period and a few photos of him and his comrades in the "Great Patriotic War" (World War II).
		His relative gave us his current address but warned us that it was well known fact in their family that he would not speak of his "war years" but wished us good luck in our effort.
		If you are a former Prisoner of War or a next of kin of a POW, we invite you to sign and leave your email address so others that come may find you.
	www.merkki.com (1366 words)

	War with Spain Medal of Honor Recipients
		Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
		Citation: Voluntarily went ashore in the face of the enemy and aided in the rescue of his wounded comrades; this after several previous attempts had been frustrated.
		(Medal presented by President, 29 April 1933.) Citation: In connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. Merrimac at the entrance to the fortified harbor of Santiago de Cuba, 3 June 1898.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/mohspan.htm (1366 words)

	World War I in Fiction and Memoirs: A Selected List
		The fictionalized memoir of the great war poet who was awarded the Military Cross but then risked court martial to protest the war.
		The book accomplishes with powerful prose the unlikely blend of a horrific tale of trench warfare with a touching love story.
		An allegorical story ostensibly about the mutiny of a French regiment masterminded by a corporal and his twelve comrades (disciples?) which brings about a temporary peace and retaliation by the powers that be.
	www.wla.lib.wi.us /readers/bibliographies/ww1.htm (1366 words)

	Napoleonic Marshals : Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte : Napoleonic Wars : France
		The first being Davout pulling off one of the great military victories and the second being Bernadotte's wife, Desiree Clary, was a former lover of Bonaparte.
		The second period of Bernadotte's career started well, he performed well at Austerlitz and earned his princedom, but his military star was on the wane and in 1807 he again faced dismissal.
		Two years later he was sacked for quitting his command due to dissatisfaction with how the war against the Second Coalition was being fought, but had the good fortune to marry Desiree Clary.
	www.napoleonguide.com /marshal_bernadotte.htm (400 words)

	HIST 328 British Empire: Film List
		A British army officer who resigns his commission on the eve of his unit's embarkation on a mission against Sudanese rebels seeks to redeem his cowardice by secretly aiding his former comrades disguised as an Arab.
		This British film, released in the UK under the title "Northwest Frontier", takes place in 1905 in the Northwest mountain regions of India where a local Hindu raja allied to the British is battling rebel Muslim tribesmen.
		The title character is a young British orphan who, like an Anglo-Indian Huck Finn, roams the bazaars and roads of his adoptive country surviving through theft, begging, and being a messenger and spy for the British.
	www.lclark.edu /~campion/hist328/films.htm (2644 words)

	Great Battles and Turning Points of the Civil War
		By the end of this program you will have developed a richer understanding of great battles and campaigns of the Civil War and the complicated topic of turning points.
		His many works of Civil War history include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, and Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam.
		Gary W. Gallagher, the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, is a leading authority on Civil War military history.
	www.uvacivilwar.org /05CWRoad.html (1802 words)

	Special Events
		As we mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II this year, we remember the millions of veterans who crossed oceans and defeated two of the most ruthless military forces the world has ever known.
		The freedom that the children and grandchildren of these veterans now enjoy is a monument to their fallen comrades and the generations of patriots who have served our country.
		November 11, is the anniversary of the Armistice which was signed in the Forest of Compiegne by the Allies and the Germans in 1918, ending World War I, after four years of conflict.
	www.veteransmuseum.org /specialevents.htm (418 words)

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