Archive for May 8th, 2012

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    Historic WWI Photo – The Somme, 1916

    May 8, 2012 by Dan Black
    An aerial view of the shell-pocked landscape surrounding Regina and Kenora trenches on the Somme, fall 1916. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C014151...
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    Battlefields Then And Now – The War Of 1812: Battle Of Lacolle Mill

    May 8, 2012 by Tom MacGregor
    After the defeat at Crysler’s Farm in the fall of 1813, Major-General James Wilkinson led about 1,200 American troops in a winter attack against Lacolle Mill, roughly 70 kilometres south of Montreal. About 200 British regulars took refuge in a wooden blockhouse while two flanks...