As we get closer to November 11, Veteran's Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in the UK, we need to remember those have sacrificed their lives so we can live in freedom. One hundred years ago the Great War was being fought in Europe and the Middle East. As I do every year … Continue reading Churchill’s “The World Crisis”
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GALLIPOLI
This is a post I've done before, last year in fact. But, this past Monday,April 25, was the 100 years anniversary since the Allies landed troops on the Gallipoli peninsula, primarily the Anzacs, men from Australasia and New Zealand. Memorial services were held this week those two countries, as well in London, where the Queen … Continue reading GALLIPOLI
Gallipoli Campaign
The Gallipoli campaign was a side bar in 1915, the second year of the First World War . Gallipoli is a peninsula in northwest Turkey on the west side of a waterway leading from the Black Sea past Istanbul (it was called Constantinople in 1915) to the Adriatic Sea. Because Russia was fighting on the side the … Continue reading Gallipoli Campaign
Shelf Life in the Mountains 