Battlefields: Then and Now
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panorama of the Sesto Dolomites mountain range near Rifugio Locatelli (altitude of 2,438 m); the area was the front line between Italy and Austria during World War I and to this day, the trenches, tunnels, and iron ladders remind us of the fierce fighting witnessed by these peaks during the war
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……Named after the Battle of Shrewsbury that took place here way back in 1403 between the Lancastrian King Henry IV and the rebel army headed up by Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland - Henry won!! see link for a bit more on this medieval battle..…….. Hope you are all getting to grips with the new lockdown restrictions and a VERY BIG THANK YOU to ALL the key workers who are carrying on to benefit the rest of us - we applaud you all. Alan;-)👏👏👏👏👏
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Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This is one of the most iconic US Civil War battlefields. Being an amateur history buff, I have been to this battlefield 4 times. Each visit is as poignant and somber as the last. Much to be learned here as a nation, If only we would wake up and pay attention!
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. Margaret F. Barber
it is a battlefield-like impression when the poppy gives up its male seed threads and leaves them chopped off on the poppy leaves.
wie auf einem Schlachtfeld liegen die Samenfäden niedergestreckt auf den Mohnblättern
Daisies blooming during sunset at Manassas National Battlefield in Manassas, VA.
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This is the Leanach Cottage on Culloden Battlefield, and is the only building remaining from the time of the famous battle in which the Jacobites were soundly defeated in 1746. It continued to be occupied up until 1912, and is now maintained in its current condition, though visitors are no longer allowed inside. We walked the solemn battlefield which is a mass graveyard, peaceful and quiet on a cloudy day, accompanied by a historian who is steeped in the stories and mythology of Scottish history.
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The 100-foot-high Battlefield Monument stands as a symbol of peace and commemorates those soldiers who died on June 6, 1813.
A section of the Somme battlefield in Picardy, France. Tragic scenes played here in the First World War, in July 1916, when the British army tried to break through the German defences.
The front in Northern France had bogged down in the autumn of 1914. Mobile warfare morphed into a large-scale siege war of trenches and fortified lines. In 1916, both sides attempted to end the stalemate with massive offensives dominated by artillery - the Germans at Verdun, the French and British at the Somme.
The whole Somme campaign, July-November 1916 (141 days), cost Britain 420,000 casualties (killed, disappeared and wounded); the Germans lost half a million, the French 202,000 men. The breakthrough was never achieved.
Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France
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We headed out to Manassas Battlefield with the camera and the dogs - fall views and a great place to walk Teddy and Echo without too many distractions. Midweek we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves.
Vicksburg Battlefield
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I'm back from an 8 day trip from Dallas via Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. I have so many photographs to process this winter including the 5 other states of the deep south earlier this spring.
Here is my photos of the Vicksburg Battlefield. I was extra pleased to finally visit Martin Green's plaque where he was killed. Martin Green was the Colonel for the Confederate side from our county's very own Civil War battle site at Athens where I have given tours for years. Martin Green was from Lewis County and ultimately killed at Vicksburg by a sharpshooter at the time he was a Brigadier General. It was an honor to visit the battle site where he fought over 700 miles from home.
Built in the first half of the 18th century, Leanach cottage sits on one corner of the Culloden battlefield, the last major battle on British soil. It is built of stone and turf and roofed with thatch made from heather. There used to be another building adjoined to it but it was destroyed when Government troops deliberately set fire to it to burn alive 32 injured Jacobite fighters inside.
Having lived in Scotland before, I'm now taking the opportunity to visit places I never managed to get to before. And now that I live in the heart of Bonnie Prince Charlie land around Moidart, I'm keen to get my history correct for the benefit of guests to our B&B.
I've been reading up so much history put together by the Moidart History Group in Glenuig. Their research put rather a different slant on the otherwise romantic idea of BPC reclaiming the throne for a British King from the German Hanovarian incumbent. (An 18th century Brexit jaunt).It seems BPC (Bonnie Prince Charlie) was not that popular hanging around the courts of Europe, and even his own father disapproved strongly with the Prince's plan to take the throne back for his family. But with the enthusiasm only a Scottish football fan can have he set off with virtually no support, but with a sense of optimism like that that drove Ally McLeod at the head of his tartan army all the way to Argentina for the 1978 World Cup that they were definitely going to win. Of course that venture all ended up in tears as did the Scottish Jacobite rebellion of 1745, at Culloden.
Having fought and beaten every English Government force they met, the Jacobite army battled their way down through England, as far as Derby, with the capital London in their sights. There, things started to fall apart, a bit like Ally's army when some of the team tested positive for drugs, and they retreated north, harried by Government forces all the way, until they arrived back in the Highlands at Culloden on 16th April 1746.
The battle only lasted about an hour. The Government forces had been well rested, and outnumbered and out gunned the Jacobites, who stood on a tactically inferior position. The Jacobites lost 1500-2000 men in that hour, the Government forces only about 300. Many Jacobite prisoners were summarily executed earning the Government commander, The Duke of Cumberland, the title of The Butcher. The Jacobite survivors dispersed whilst BPC fled and hid in the Highlands, often dressed as a woman before returning to France.
It's a history that is hard for me. With an English father, an army officer, and a Scots mother I cannot call myself either English or Scots. I can only be British. But my genes are infused with Highlander DNA and my heart is Scottish, but my head, English.
I've grown up with Scots chanting about Bannockburn, the Scots victory over the English in 1314, William Wallace and Mel Gibson and all that BS of a crap film shot in Ireland. In contrast the English don't seem to boast about Culloden, and the Scots remain tightlipped about it. But even as I drove towards a visit to Culloden near Inverness, the local radio mentioned a first meeting in Fort William this coming Friday for a new Scottish Independence rally. I cannot support it. Oh, by the way I discovered the battlefield is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays! A battlefield closed? I hope they mention that to Putin. You can't invade Ukraine on a Monday or Tuesday. It's closed.
No, coming back to England V Scotland....fighting each other has not been good for either side. And that's what the SNP independence drive makes us do. Fight each other. But even worse, it makes Scot fight against Scot for what they deem to be their nation and their independence.
There were large numbers of Scots on both sides at Culloden. You can see the humps in the ground where the mass graves are, in between the Government and Jacobite lines, in no man's land. We should learn that fighting each other does no good!
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Another one I found from a trip to Shiloh. If you tun to the left from the cannon row, there is a tree and two other cannons. I liked the look of it. Can’t imagine what it was like long ago. Always a bit of a heavy feeling out there, to tread where history has happened.