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Outside a cottage in Chipping Campden, UK, c. 1920s-1930s
A lady carrying a pitcher, Corfu, Greece, c. 1900
October, 539 BC: The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia conquers the city of Babylon, capitol of the Babylonian empire.
12 October 1492: Italian born explorer Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas, claiming the territory for Spain. Leading a Spanish enterprise to find an alternate route to the Far East, he instead discovered the New World.
A German A7V tank captured by New Zealand troops, WWI, 1918
Robert Schumann in an 1850 daguerreotype. Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music.
🎼 Click here to listen to his famous "Träumerei" (Dreaming): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnB51JbW2VQ&list=RDjnB51JbW2VQ&start_radio=1
A Jewish mother and son being shot at the edge of a mass grave in Miropol, Ukraine by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators, October 13, 1941.
Harvesting pumpkins, c. 1880s-1890s
Canadian officers taking a look at a French mounted railway gun, WWI, October 1917 (colourised)
14 October 1066: The Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, defeats the English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, beginning the Norman conquest of England. Harold is reportedly killed after being shot in the eye with an arrow. The above images are taken from the 11th century 70 meter long Bayeux tapestry which details the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England.
🇭🇺 Hungarians deface a statue of brutal communist dictator Stalin which was torn down in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution, 1956
French wounded evacuated to a makeshift shelter near the front, WWI, October 1917 (Colourised)
Fishermen at Hastings mending their nets, England, c. 1890s
US soldiers with German prisoners in Aachen, October 1944
16-19 October 1813: In the largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces are defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia at the Battle of Leipzig in Saxony.
In this conflict, also known as the Battle of Nations, the Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Emperor Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops, as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine.
The battle involved 500,000 soldiers, 2,200 artillery pieces, the expenditure of 200,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and 127,000 casualties.
A British soldier helping an elderly woman amid the ruins of Caen, France, 1944.
🇭🇺 The Siege of Eger, painting by Bertalan Székely. In 1552, the forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Kara Ahmed Pasha laid siege to the Castle of Eger, located in the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, but the roughly 2,000 defenders led by István Dobó repelled the attacks and defended the castle, despite being vastly outnumbered by 35,000–40,000 Turk warriors. The battle finished with Hungarian victory.
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