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On this day in 845, nearly 5,000 Viking raiders arrived in Paris. After months of sailing along the Seine river, the Vikings - warriors from Scandinavia led by Ragnar Loþbrók - were hungry for blood. Facing them was a Frankish army under Charles the Bald, a Carolingian ruler and incredibly hairy individual. The Vikings had…
This article is a revised version of an essay submitted for academic credit at the University of Toronto. Belgian displaced-persons (or "DPs") after their escape from urban combat in 1945. (Time) Throughout history, military forces have usually avoided fighting in built-up areas for a variety of reasons. Street battles are difficult to control, harder to…
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A French police operator from GIGN patrols Paris in the wake of a terror attack. (sn.at) On this day in 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo - a Parisian newspaper that featured controversial cartoons - and opened fire. After massacring a number of journalists and cartoonists at the paper's 11th arrondissement office,…
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