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WWI Centennial: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. By Erik ... MARCH 3, 1918: THE TREATY OF BREST ... who had already alienated France and Britain by repudiating around $6.5 billion of foreign debt ...
Excited by her discovery, Mrs Forster got in contact with the Tourism Officer for Penwith, Mike Foxley who took a selection of the images to France to show local newspapers in Brest.
After nine days at sea aboard the S.S. George Washington, a German-built passenger liner interned in New York at the start of World War I, Wilson arrived at Brest, France, and traveled to Paris.
A festive ward at Camp Hospital №33, in Brest, Finistere, France, December 1918. Courtesy of the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage. As a German plane buzzed overhead, nurse ...
BREST, France, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- An estimated 16,000 residents of Brest, France, were evacuated under a plan to eliminate explosives dropped during World War II, authorities said.
Entre 1917 et 1919, 850 000 soldats américains débarquent à Brest. À leur arrivée, la ville, ... Les Unes historiques Ouest-France : trouvez la vôtre ! Ça m'intéresse .
Brest. En 1917, d'étranges navires accostent dans le port Le musée de la Marine accueille une expo étonnante sur le camouflage des transports de troupe américains.
On March 3, 1918, the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire) signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the communist government of Russia, ending Russian involvement ...
Brest, on France's western tip, has staged several mine-clearing operations. In March, 3,000 residents were evacuated from an area near the port to allow units to defuse a 250-kilogram US bomb.