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French cruiser Dupleix The Dupleix was a French heavy cruiser of the " Suffren " type , that saw service during World War II . She was named for the 18th century Governor - General of French India Joseph François Dupleix . She was commissioned on 7 July 1932 and based in Toulon , as part of the 1st light division of the 1st squadron . In 1937 , she was completely refitted . From 14 October 1939 to the end of January 1940 , along with the cruiser " Algérie " , she was part of Force X based in Dakar . While on patrol in the Atlantic with the destroyers , " Le Fantasque " and " Le Terrible " , she intercepted and captured the German freighter " Santa Fé " , on 25 October 1939 , On 14 June 1940 , " Dupleix " participated in the French raid on Genoa , with sister ships Foch and Colbert . After the surrender , " Dupleix " remained with the Vichy Fleet at Toulon . When the Germans occupied Vichy France , she was scuttled , in the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon . German officers , attempting to take the ship intact , rushed aboard and forced the French crew below decks , and successfully located and closed the sea valves . The ship ' s captain , capitaine de vaisseau Moreau , ordered the scuttling charges in the main turrets to be lit with shortened fuses and when they exploded and fires took hold , Moreau ordered the final evacuation . French and Germans aboard all fled the vessel . Explosions of the ship ' s torpedo stores destroyed the vessel , which burned for 10 days . Refloated in two sections on 3 July 1943 by Italian salvage teams ; the two halves were hit by bomb on 11 March 44 , the bow sinking immediately and the stern on the 15th . The remains were broken up in situ in 1951 .
Oflag VIII - F Oflag VIII - F was a World War II German prisoner - of - war camp for officer s ( " Offizierlager " ) located first in Wahlstatt , Germany ( now Legnickie Pole , Poland ) and then at Mährisch - Trübau , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( now Moravská Třebová , Czech Republic ) . Camp history . Oflag VIII - F was first established at Wahlstatt in July 1940 and housed French and Belgian officers taken prisoner during the Battle of France . It was located in a former Benedictine Abbey dedicated to Saint Hedwig of Silesia , that had been a military school between 1840 and 1920 , and used by the Nazis as a " National Political Educational Institution " from 1934 . In July 1942 a new camp at Mährisch - Trübau , about to the south , was designated Oflag VIII - F , while the original camp was redesignated Oflag VIII F / Z , a sub - camp of Mährisch - Trübau . The prisoners were transferred to other camps , though a small number stayed behind to carry out construction work as the site was adapted for the use of GEMA ( " Gesellschaft für und mechanische elektroakustische apparate " ) in developing radar systems . The camp at Mahrisch - Trubau contained around 2 , 000 officers , mostly British captured in North Africa and the Greek Islands , but there were also numbers of Greek , French and American POW . In April 1944 , most of the prisoners were transferred to Oflag 79 near Braunschweig and the camp was closed .
Thurnham Castle Thurnham Castle or Godard ' s Castle is situated to the north of the village of Thurnham which is 3 miles north - east of Maidstone , Kent ( ) . It is a 12th - century flint - built castle constructed by Robert de Thurnham in the reign of Henry II on a hill on the edge of the North Downs . One side of the bailey wall still stands 10 foot high and originally it enclosed an area of about a quarter of an acre . There is no visible stonework on the large motte . The site has been acquired by Kent County Council and included in the White Horse Millennium Wood and Country Park Project . Much of the site has been cleared of undergrowth and public access has been provided .
Siege of Shkodra ( 1474 ) The Siege of Shkodra of 1474 was an Ottoman attack upon Venetian - controlled Shkodra in Albania Veneta during the First Ottoman - Venetian War ( 1463 – 79 ) . Siege . Strong Ottoman forces besieged Shkodra in spring 1474 . Mehmed had dispatched the beylerbey of Rumelia , Hadım Suleiman Pasha , with about 8 , 000 men , but were repulsed by commander Antonio Loredan and feared Venetian reinforcements . The Venetian Senate ordered all available galleys to transport archers to Shkodra trough river Bojana . All Venetian governors were ordered to help besieged city . According to Venetian reports in July Shkodra was besieged by 50 , 000 Ottoman soldiers who were supported by heavy artillery . At the beginning of 1474 the whole region around Shkodra , including the abandoned Baleč , came under Ottoman rule . According to some sources the Ottoman sultan had intentions to rebuild Podgorica and Baleč in 1474 and to settle them with 5 , 000 Turkish families in order to establish an additional obstacle for cooperation of Crnojević ' s Zeta and besieged Venetian Shkodra . During their 1474 campaign Ottomans damaged Alessio and razed Dagnum castle . Triadan Gritti was appointed as Venetian captain general instead of Pietro Mocenigo . Gritti led the Venetian fleet of six galleys which sailed early in May 1474 to protect the coast of Albania Veneta and especially the mouths of river Bojana . Gritti joined Mocenigo in Shkodra and they both ordered to Leonardo Boldu to find Ivan Crnojević and to urge him to mobilize as many of his men as possible to help Venetians during the Siege of Shkodra . Boldu was also ordered to transport Crnojević ' s cavalry and infantry over the Skadar Lake . Ivan Crnojević had important role in the defense of the Shkodra because he provided connection with Kotor and supplied the city trough Žabljak or Skadar Lake , fighting simultaneously against strong Ottoman forces . He transported men and woods from Kotor over the hills into Žabljak where he built fusta s which surprised Ottomans at Skadar lake . During whole summer Ivan Crnojević participated in military actions . He controlled the Skadar lake with three fustas and 15 smaller ships , which was very important because Venetian fleet ( composed of 34 larger ships and about 100 smaller ) was unable to sail further than St . Srđ . Boldu was able to reach the besieged city from Žabljak thanks to the ships of Ivan Crnojević . The crew of Venetian ships together with stratioti from Greece joined the defenders in the besieged city and , according to some Venetian reports , their total number reached 25 , 000 . After the discovery of the treason committed by Andreas Humoj , a member of Humoj family , during the Siege of Shkodra Gritti sentenced him to death and had him executed by a man from Tuzi . Between 7 , 000 and 20 , 000 Turkish soldiers are reported to have been killed , and approximately 3 , 000 Shkodrans . In the siege , the outer walls were damaged significantly . The citizens rebuilt the walls in anticipation of a stronger Ottoman attack later . The Ottomans did return in 1478 to conquer Shkodra .
Eric Grove Professor Eric Grove Eric Grove ( born 1948 ) is a British naval historian and defence analyst who teaches at Liverpool Hope University in Liverpool in the United Kingdom . Biography . Grove was born in Bolton , Lancashire in 1948 . Grove took an Master of Arts in War Studies at King ' s College London in 1971 and was appointed that year as a civilian lecturer at the Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth . During the 1970s he wrote books on tanks and armoured warfare . It was during this period that Grove first co - operated with the author , journalist , broadcaster and founder of AFI Research , Richard M Bennett . In 1980 and 1981 Grove was the first Dartmouth academic to exchange for a year with the United States Naval Academy , Annapolis . Leaving Dartmouth as Deputy Head of Strategic Studies and International Affairs at the end of 1984 Grove worked briefly for the Council for Arms Control before becoming a freelance academic and defence consultant . His principal work was with the Foundation for International Security ' s Common Security Programme followed by its project on Maritime Power and European Security which involved the creation of a back channel , later official , dialogue between the Soviet , US and Royal Navies . He also taught at the Royal Naval College , Greenwich and the University of Cambridge . In 1993 Grove accepted a position with the Department of Politics at the University of Hull and its Centre for Security Studies . He obtained a PhD on the basis of his published works in 1996 . He eventually left in 2005 as Reader in Politics and International Studies and Director of the Centre , having founded a new undergraduate course in War and Security Studies . During this time he also acted as consultant and co author for the first edition of the Royal Navy ' s " The Fundamentals of British Maritime Doctrine " ( BR1806 ) . He was also involved in the first iteration of British Defence Doctrine . In 1997 Dr Grove was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Maritime Policy at the University of Wollongong , New South Wales . In 2005 Grove moved to the University of Salford where he was Professor of Naval History and Director of the Centre for International Security and War Studies . His works include " Vanguard to Trident : British Naval Policy Since 1945 " ( 1987 ) , " The Future of Sea Power " ( 1990 ) , " The Price of Disobedience " ( 2000 ) and " The Royal Navy Since 1815 " ( 2005 ) . He also edited a new edition of Sir Julian Corbett ' s " Some Principles of Maritime Strategy " in 1988 . Grove appears has made contributions to BBC2 ' s Timewatch series , Deep Wreck Mysteries , Channel 4 ' s Hunt for The Hood and the Bismarck and the series The Battleships and The Airships . Grove is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , a Vice President of the Society for Nautical Research and a Member of Council of the Navy Records Society ( for which he edited the Naval Staff History , " The Defeat of the Enemy Attack Upon Shipping " , published in 1997 ) .
SS Marietta E SS " Marietta E " was a British cargo ship completed by William Hamilton & Co in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in June 1940 . She had a single 520 NHP triple - expansion steam engine built by David Rowan and Company of Glasgow , that drove a single screw . She had eight corrugated furnaces heating two 225 lb / in single - ended boilers with a combined heating surface of , plus one auxiliary boiler . She was owned by Leith Hill Shipping Co Ltd and managed by Counties Ship Management Co Ltd of London ( CSM ) , both of which were offshoots of the Rethymnis & Kulukundis shipbroking company . She was named after Marietta E Kulukundis , a member of the Kulukundis family that had a major shareholding in her . " Marietta E " was a sister ship of , and , which also were managed by CSM and owned by companies associated with R & K . Sinking . Early in 1943 she sailed from New York , bound for Alexandria in Egypt via Durban and Aden . She was laden with a cargo of government and commercial stores and deck cargo of eight LCPL landing craft . In Durban she joined convoy DN - 21 to Alexandria " via " Aden . At 0346 hrs on 4 March in the Indian Ocean east of East London , fired two torpedoes at the convoy , one of which sank the " Marietta E " killing four crew and one DEMS gunner . South African Navy rescue launch R8 rescued the Master , 33 crew and six DEMS gunners and landed them at Durban .
USS Samuel S . Miles ( DE - 183 ) USS " Samuel S . Miles " ( DE - 183 ) was a built for the United States Navy during World War II . She served in the Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys . She returned home at war ' s end with a remarkable eight battle stars to her credit . She was laid down on 5 July 1943 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co . , Newark , New Jersey ; launched on 3 October 1943 ; sponsored by Mrs . Samuel S . Miles ; and commissioned on 4 November 1943 , Lt . Comdr . George B . Coale in command . World War II Pacific Theatre operations . Following shakedown off Bermuda , " Samuel S . Miles " departed New York City , on 30 December 1943 , and steamed via the Panama Canal to the Marshall Islands , arriving on 19 February 1944 . Serving as an escort ship in the Marshall Islands area , she protected fleet oilers during fast carrier air strikes against the Caroline Islands and the Hollandia , New Guinea , area in April . Shoots down 3 Japanese planes , sinks 1 submarine . Next she guarded oilers during the capture of Saipan and Tinian , and splashed two enemy planes on 18 June . She supported the Leyte and Luzon , Philippine Islands , campaigns in late 1944 and early 1945 . " Samuel S . Miles " sank near the Palau Islands on 3 October . After guarding the invasion force at Iwo Jima in February , she screened the bombardment group that pounded Okinawa , where she splashed one enemy plane on 27 March . Targeted by a Kamikaze . A kamikaze near - miss killed one of her crew members ( Robert Cecil Allen ) on 11 April , and damaged some of her equipment . After screening escort carriers operating north of Okinawa , she sailed to the west coast in July . Post - War decommissioning . After overhaul , she voyaged via the Panama Canal to Norfolk , Virginia , arriving on 21 October . Reaching St . Johns River , Florida , on 8 November 1945 , she decommissioned and entered the Reserve Fleet on 28 March 1946 . Struck from the Navy List on 26 September 1950 , she was transferred to France on 12 August 1950 and renamed " Arabe " ( F - 717 ) , she was stricken and broken up in 1968 . Awards . " Samuel S , Miles " received eight battle stars for World War II service . References . http : / / cfswbiz . web . siteprotect . net / miles / images - cgi / Plaque _ on _ the _ Wall % 20 _ at _ the _ Admiral _ Nimitz _ Museum _ in _ Fredricksburg , _ Texas . jpg
USS Feldspar ( IX - 159 ) USS " Feldspar " ( IX - 159 ) , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel , was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for feldspar . She was acquired by the Navy and placed in service on 11 August 1944 . She was towed to the Philippine Islands where she provided United States Army and United States Marine Corps supplies . " Feldspar " was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 August 1946 and sold .
Battle of Loyew ( 1651 ) Battle of Loyew ( , , ) , ( July 6 , 1651 ) was a battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising . Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Janusz Radziwiłł defeated the Cossack forces under the command of Martyn Nebaba .
Combe Force Combe Force , or Combeforce , was an " ad hoc " flying column formed by the British Army for a specific purpose during the latter stages of Operation Compass . " Combe Force " was formed to cut across the open desert of Cyrenaica and cut off the retreating Italian Army which was travelling along the coastal road , the Via Balbia . " Combe Force " was formed for this one purpose during the early stages of the North African Campaign in World War II . Creation . Combe Force was created by Major General Michael O ' Moore Creagh towards the end of Operation Compass . In early December 1940 , the British launched the Operation Compass counterattack against the Italian forces which had invaded Egypt in September . At that time , the Italians advanced only as far as Sidi Barrani and established defensive positions there in a series of fortified camps . These camps were overrun during the initial stages of Operation Compass . As Operation Compass progressed , Italian garrisons in Bardia and then Tobruk were isolated and captured . By February 1941 , the remaining Italian forces in Cyrenaica were withdrawing down the Via Balbia with the British 7th Armored Division and the Australian 6th Infantry Division close behind . Combe Force was created to cut across the open desert and block the escape route of the slow moving Italian columns as they traveled down the coastal highway from Benghazi . Combe Force was commanded by Lieutenant - Colonel John Combe . Composition . Because speed was of the essence and because the available British tanks needed more time for replenishment , Combe Force was to consist of formations which utilized wheeled vehicles . The composition of Combe Force was as follows :
Nùng Tồn Phúc Nùng Tồn Phúc ( Zhuang language : " Nungz _ _ _ _ " ; Chinese : " Nong Quanfu " 儂全福 ; Vietnamese : " Nùng Tồn Phúc " ; ? - 1039 ) was a Nùng people ( that is Zhuang people ) warlord of Cao Bằng in Vietnam at the time of Vietnamese king Lý Thái Tông . He was father of the Zhuang warlord Nungz Ciqgaoh ( known in Vietnamese as Nùng Trí Cao and Chinese as Nong Zhigao ) . Nùng Tồn Phúc and his older son Nung Tri Thong made the first effort at rebellion against the King Lý Thái Tông , but this failed and both of them were caught and executed .
Caudron C . 59 The Caudron C . 59 was a French , two - seat biplane with a single engine and a canvas - covered fuselage . The French aircraft manufacturer Caudron made this aircraft between 1922 and 1924 . It was suitable for several purposes . The Caudron C . 59 was used in France , Bulgaria , China , Finland , Turkey and in the Spanish Civil War . There was also a C . 59 / 2 version , which was equipped with a Lorraine 7Ma engine . More than 1 , 800 Caudron C . 59s were manufactured . Operational history . Finland . The Finnish Air Force purchased three Caudron C . 59s from France in 1923 . The aircraft first carried the air force designation codes 2E3 - 2E5 and from 1927 on CA - 48 – CA - 50 . The manufacturing numbers of the aircraft were 5407 – 5409 . The aircraft were equipped with landing gear , but there were at least one aircraft ( 2E3 ) was fitted with floats . The aircraft were accepted into service on March 8 , 1923 and the last one was taken out of service in 1931 . Survivors . Päijänne Tavastia Aviation Museum in Asikkala , Finland has one Caudron C . 59 in storage .
Convoy HX 126 Convoy HX 126 was the 126th of the numbered series of World War II HX convoys of merchant ships from HalifaX to Liverpool . The ships departed Halifax on 10 May 1941 and were escorted across the North Atlantic by the armed merchant cruiser " Aurania " intended to provide protection against merchant raider s . " Aurania " was poorly equipped to defend the convoy from attacks beginning on 19 May by U - boat s of the 1st , 2nd and 7th Flotillas , operating out of Brest , Lorient and St Nazaire , respectively . U - boats sank nine ships prior to arrival of the 12th Escort Group on 21 May . Surviving ships reached Liverpool on 28 May .
Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck ( 31 January 1620 , Arolsen – 19 November 1692 , Arolsen ) was a German and Dutch Field Marshal and , for the last three years of his life , Grand Master of the Order of Saint John ( Bailiwick of Brandenburg ) . In 1641 , Waldeck entered the service of the States - General of the Netherlands ; later in 1651 , in the service of Brandenburg , he reached the highest rank as minister . He changed the foreign policy completely by abandoning the alliance with the Emperor and trying to forge a coalition with the Protestant princes . In 1656 he arranged a coalition with Sweden , and commanded the cavalry in the Battle of Warsaw ( 1656 ) against Poland . He was dismissed in 1658 when Frederick William , Elector of Brandenburg made peace with Poland . After that he fought under Charles X Gustav of Sweden against Denmark , as German Reichsfeldmarschall in 1664 near Sankt Gotthard . In 1683 he commanded Bavarian troops during the Battle of Vienna . In 1685 he fought as a free - lancer for the Duke of Lorraine and the Elector of Bavaria . After William III left for England in 1688 to claim the English throne , Waldeck was appointed Field Marshal of William ' s forces during the War of the Grand Alliance in the Spanish Netherlands . Although he was victorious at the Battle of Walcourt in 1689 , the following year he suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of Marshal Luxembourg at the Battle of Fleurus . In 1691 , he was again outmanoeuvred by Luxembourg and defeated at the Battle of Leuze . After this defeat Waldeck was appointed chief - of - staff of the Dutch States Army . He died on 19 November 1692 in Arolsen . < BR >
John J . Toffey John James Toffey ( June 1 , 1844 – March 13 , 1911 ) was a United States Union Army officer during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor . Civil War . Serving first as a Private in Company C , 21st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry ( a nine - month service regiment ) from August 28 , 1862 to June 19 , 1863 , he was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in Company F , 33rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry on August 23 , 1863 , and was mustered into the unit on August 29 , 1863 . He participated in the November 23 , 1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge , at Chattanooga , Tennessee , and it was there that he performed the act of bravery that garnered him the Medal of Honor . His wounds forced his discharge from the 33rd New Jersey on June 2 , 1864 , and he was appointed into the Veteran Reserve Corps . He served in the VRC as a lieutenant until June 1866 . While still in service , he was an eyewitness to Lincoln ' s assassination at Ford ' s Theater , participated in the search for the conspirators , testified at their trial and witnessed their subsequent execution . He received his medal on September 10 , 1897 . Post - War Career . After the war he went on to have a life of extensive public service in Hudson County , New Jersey . He served two terms as County sheriff , served as state treasurer of New Jersey from 1875 to 1891 , as an alderman of Jersey City , New Jersey , and was elected as a member of the New Jersey State Legislature . He died in Pawling , New York , the town of his birth , and was buried in the Pawling Cemetery , near the grave of Civil War Naval hero Rear Admiral John Lorimer Worden , his uncle by marriage of Worden to his father ' s sister Olive . His grave was marked with a Medal of Honor headstone in 2004 , 93 years after his death . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : First Lieutenant , Company G , 33d New Jersey Infantry . Place and date . At Chattanooga , Tenn . , November 23 , 1863 . Entered service at : Hudson , N . J . Birth : Duchess , N . Y . Date of issue : September 10 , 1897 . Citation : Although excused from duty on account of sickness , went to the front in command of a storming party and with conspicuous gallantry participated in the assault of Missionary Ridge ; was here wounded and permanently disabled .
Project Big Ben " Big Ben " was the World War II code name for the British project to reconstruct and evaluate captured German missiles such as the V - 2 rocket . On July 31 , 1944 , after the UK agreed to exchange Supermarine Spitfires for the wreckage of a V - 2 in Sweden during World War II , experts at Farnborough began an attempt to reconstruct the missile . In late July , 1944 , Operation Most III the Polish resistance movement ( " Armia Krajowa " ) succeeded in capturing an intact V2 rocket near the Pustkow Testing Center . It had been launched for a test flight , falled but didn ' t explode , and was retrieved intact from the Bug River , and transferred secretly to London .
Battle of Haarlemmermeer The Battle of Haarlemmermeer was a naval engagement fought on May 26 , 1573 , during the Dutch War of Independence . It was fought on the waters of the Haarlemmermeer – a large lake which at the time was a prominent feature of north Holland ( it would be drained in the 19th Century ) . A Spanish fleet , commanded by the count of Bossu , fought a Dutch fleet of rebellious Sea Beggars , commanded by Marinus Brandt , who were trying to break the Siege of Haarlem . After several hours of fight , The Sea Beggars were forced to retreat .