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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

The Rough Riders Don't Ride Again

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Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Rider   By James Patton Two months before the U.S. declared war, the former president had begun to re-assemble his Ro...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Secret Overture to Lenin: The Bullitt Mission to Soviet Russia, 1919—A Roads Classic

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Tula, Russia, May Day 1919 In March of 1919, William Christian Bullitt, an attaché to the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Con...
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Monday, January 25, 2021

What Happened at the Col de la Chipotte?

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Chipotte Pass Today, Cemetery on Left From 28 August to 9 September 1914, Col de la Chipotte, a small pass through the Vosges Mountains six ...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Don't Miss Your January 2021 St. Mihiel Trip-Wire!

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  In this issue, we focus on one of the most remembered and honored formations of the war, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment http://www.worldw...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Recommended: Warrior—The Horse the Germans Could Not Kill

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  General Jack Seely on Warrior , painted in 1918 by Sir Alfred Munnings By Aimee Lewis, CNN Originally Presented 13 November 2018 On the ba...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Serbia's Greatest General: Živojin Mišić

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Field Marshal Živojin  Mišić (1855–1921) was Serbia's greatest military commander of the First World War. Called from forced retirement,...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Images of Wales and the Welsh at War

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Editor's Note: We have published numerous articles about the contributions and sacrifices of Wales and the Welsh people on Roads to the ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Recommended: The Canary Girls and the WWI Poisons That Turned Them Yellow

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By Messy Nessy Originally Presented 17 February 2016 At lunchtime, the women had to be separated in the cafeteria because everything they to...

Don't Miss Your December 2020 St. Mihiel Trip-Wire!

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  Our December 2020 issue of tthe  St. Mihiel Trip-Wire focuses on the War in Wintertime. http://www.worldwar1.com/tripwire/smtw1220.htm Ma...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The Vigilantes

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  By Keith Muchowski One Sunday afternoon in November 1916, the same month incumbent Woodrow Wilson defeated challenger Charles Evans Hughes...
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Monday, January 18, 2021

Flanders After War

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The Flanders Battlefield in 1919 For thousands of Belgian people, the signing of the Armistice on 11 November 1918 marked the beginning of a...
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Sunday, January 17, 2021

The Tirpitz Danger Zone

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In 1897, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930) was named Germany's Secretary of State for the Navy. The next year he introduced the fir...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Episode 27 of BBC's Great War Series

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  Voices from the Western Front
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Friday, January 15, 2021

General Pershing's Tumultuous Welcome in Paris: 13 June 1917

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French Honor Guard Described by War Correspondent Floyd Gibbons [That afternoon] the sooty girders of the Gare du Nord shook with cheers whe...
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