Category: Modern History
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The battered relationship between the English and the Irish
The Tudor dynasty is quite well known to many people for various reasons. Of course, most people know the reign of terror of Henry VIII, who left a trail of destruction with his series of marriages, exhausted the English treasury due to the many wars he waged, and the extravagant court and tournaments he maintained.…
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The Raid on Dutch soil
Early 1940, The Netherlands was still building their defense against a possible raid from Hitlers Germany. In the middle section of the Eastern border, they build the so called Maaslinie, supported with the “Peel-raamstelling”, a defensive line containing rather small concrete fortifications called “kazematten” from which fixed machinegunfire could be launched upon the enemy approaching.…