#Armistice

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CapHornier_

#Thread Mers El Kebir 3 juillet 1940.Alors que la France, vaincue par l’Allemagne, vient de signer l’Armistice, l'Angleterre craint que la puissante flotte Française ne tombe entre les mains allemandes.

Sayed Tabatabai, MD

TheRealDoctorT

Every day I see the same cook in the hospital cafeteria.I say hello, and ask him the same question.“How’s it going?”He always smiles and shrugs, “Eh, not bad for a

emily

emilywritesgood

Before today was Veterans Day it was Armistice Day, marking the end of WWI. We don’t learn much about that war here in the US, & since my 6 yo

Mike Hankins

Hankinstien

Today is the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Britain, one of the largest and most consequential air-to-air battles in world history Germany attempted to take out

Ben Winslow

BenWinslow

I went down the rabbit hole today going through @UTHeritageArts archives to look at newspaper headlines from the 1918 flu pandemic. Historians say ~91,000 infected and 2,900+ died: https://www.fox13now.com/news/coronavirus/local-coronavirus

Liam Redfern

liam_redfern

Back with some more British wartime imperial policy for @HistoryIndoors #SourceSaturday! In December 1944 Clement Attlee circulated a memoranda from the Armistice and Post-War Committee (which he chaired) to the

Italian Military Archives

ITM_archives

Thread on the Alexandria raid (it will be quite long)On the night of the 18/12 1941, the submarine Scirè, commanded by Junio Valerio Borghese, was stationing submerged near the British

Chris Pramas

Pramas

Hi, it's me, your friend who has spent over 40 years studying World War 2, and today I'd like to talk to you about dolchstoß, the "stabbed-in-the-back" myth, and how

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is instalment 12 of #deanehistory. It’s the first request job: thanks @drjones84852710! We continue the Portuguese theme, and in the Second World War – but rather different. Because not

Dave Hartley

dhartley_NMRN

#ThursdayThoughtsNab Tower has been a prominent structure marking the deep water entry of The Solent. Helping guiding shipping around the channels of Portsmouth and Southampton.Nab Tower however was built for

Jenny Grant

SilenceInPolish

"If it's going to be wasted or perhaps handed over to the Hun, we'd better take it ourselves..." In June 1940, as Pétain seeks an armistice with Hitler, a difficult

Mark Toshner

mark_toshner

I’m really struggling to watch the slow motion car crash of people denying the seriousness of this moment in the pandemic. An appeal to all those out there who are

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JustAnotPers

Let's talk about #WhitePoppies today (thread).They started in the 1930s thanks to the Women Co-op Guild (many were war widows) due to discontent on how the tone of #RemembranceDay

Kyle Glover

kyleg1461

#OTD 17:35 4th February 1944, Operation Whimsical, an attempt to insert a Special Operations Executive team into Crete. The mission: kidnap General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller "the butcher of Crete", commander of

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

The National Trust has the purpose of the permanent preservation of lands and buildings of beauty and historic interest - and of promoting them for everybody to enjoy. The Charity

Betty Suh

SuhBetty

#한국전쟁 #KoreanWar #KoreanWar70YearsOn 25 July 1950 North Korea's Kim Il Sung (grandfather of #KimJongUn) invaded the South in an attempt to reunify the peninsula by force. By 1 October 1950,

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