6. Under a cloak of terror: violence and armed conflict in Europe. - History Lab

War Lesions From the Famous Portuguese Medieval Battle of Aljubarrota

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

The corpses of the warriors of the famous battle of Aljubarrota, 1385, were laid in disorder in a common burial ground at the battlefield. The material was excavated in 1958 and then transferred, at least partly, to the Department of Anthropology of the Coimbra University (Portugal). The sample consists of 400 individuals represented mainly by their long bone fragments. Complete bones are an exception which implies that it is not possible with this material to reconstruct the different skeletons.

In the preliminary anthropological analysis of these individuals, the majority of them males who died between 20 and 60 years old, the bone injuries were the most relevant observation.

In this paper we refer to the most striking lesions due to violent and aggressive actions during fighting such as cuts, fractures, infections and eventual amputations. The probable causes of those wounds are also approached.

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‘It Still Makes Me Shudder’: Memories of Massacres and Atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

This article looks at a number of French testimonies of massacres during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars committed by combatants, for the most part against civilians.

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Following the drum: British women in the Peninsular War

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

Examines the lives of British women, soldiers and officers wives, for the most part, who followed the British army on campaign in Portugal, Spain, and Southern France during the Peninsular War (1808-1814).

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Timeline of Portugal’s Liberal Wars

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

Timeline of the Portugal Liberal War, since 1815 up to 1838.

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Topographic map of the Porto Lines

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

Topographic map of the Porto Lines / created and published by Coronel Moreira.

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“New” Soviet Bomb

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

Extract from a report by Foreign Office officials in Moscow concerning an alleged new kind of nuclear weapon developed by the USSR in 1964.

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Italian American Oral History

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

This diverse collection of more than 40 audio interviews features the stories of gentlemen who served during World War II in the United States Army, Navy, Air Corps, and Coast Guard in the European and Pacific theaters. Ciotola developed a specialized questionnaire to assure that veterans were thoughtfully interviewed about their lives and wartime experiences; along with documenting World War II recollections, the questions investigated how Italian American identify informed their service. Themes explored in the collection include: childhood in Italy and Western Pennsylvania, civilian life prior to entering the armed forces, the call to duty, military training and deployment, overseas experiences, daily life in the military, stories from the front lines and combat, release from service, homecoming, and life after the war.

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30 Voices from the Armenian Genocide

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

The testimony clip series “30 Voices from the Armenian Genocide”, was produced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the first integration of full-length Armenian Genocide testimonies into the Visual History Archive. To help put the testimony clips into perspective, each one is introduced by experts in the field of the Armenian Genocide.

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The Declaration of War against Cleopatra

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

The War of Actium (32–30 BC) was the last civil war of the Roman Republic, fought between Mark Antony (assisted by Cleopatra and by extension Ptolemaic Egypt) and Octavian. In 32 BC, Octavian convinced the Roman Senate to declare war on the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

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Colonial War in 1st Person

ad_hlab_min — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:48:38 +0000

The Municipality of Chamusca presents the first episode of the project “Guerra Colonial na Primeira Pessoa”, a documentary series that records on video the stories and memories of former combatants in the Colonial War (1961-1974) in the municipality of Chamusca.

The first episode features the testimonies of Augusto Zibreira, Emídio Cegonho, Manuel José Aranha, Sérgio Carrinho, Manuel João Serrasqueiro and António José Costa, as well as the wives of former combatants Guilhermina Correia and Helena Queimado.

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