“No withdrawal. No platoons overrun. No panic.” These were the simple yet assertive instructions of Lieutenant-Colonel Jacques Dextraze, commander of 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment,
The hands of Norman Bethune, a Canadian thoracic surgeon born on March 4, 1890, had been saving lives long before he set foot in Spain
Paardeberg had changed everything. Between Feb. 18 and 27, 1900, one of the most famous clashes of the Boer War resulted in a British Empire
May 10, 1940, was a British day of infamy. In mainland Europe, Hitler’s forces had carried out a blitzkrieg whereby France, Belgium, the Netherlands and
Canadian peacekeeper Ben Mitchell was uneasy, and not just about the mines. “Tensions were very high for not only the Eritrea[n] and Ethiopian armies,” he
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Twenty-three-year-old Roméo Dallaire, a lieutenant in 5e Régiment d’artillerie légère du Canada on Oct. 5, 1970, struggled to believe what was happening. Earlier that day,
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