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The FRENCH ARMY in WWI 📖

In January 1914, the French army had 47 division. The strength of the army consisted of 777,000 French and 46,000 colonial troops in 21 regional corps. French t...

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🌍 Travel Blog S1E10: FORT VAUX

And the last location we visited in Verdun. Some of you may recognize it as a map from the Battlefield 1 "They Shall Not Pass" DLC. It's actually very different...

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Pišece, Slovenia. 🌌 (4/4)...

WHAT is a REMEMBRANCE POPPY? 🌹

The poppy is a symbol of remembrance, worn every November, to commemorate members of the armed forces who gave their lives in war. Its origins go back to WWI. A...

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Enjoying the night at the pool, Pišece. 🌌 (3/4)...

🌍 Travel Blog S1E9: FORT DOUAUMONT

The last two things we visited in Verdun were Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux. We didn't visit the inside of Fort Douaumont as there were too many tourists, howeve...

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Vila Silva Marija, Pišece. 🏠🌌 (2/4)...

BATTLE of STALINGRAD - What happened? 📖

As the Germans advanced towards Stalingrad in the summer of 1942, the war came to the locals of the city. An evacuation was slowed to the speed of the Wehrmacht...

🌍 Travel Blog S1E8: Memorial Verdun PHOTOS

The Memorial Verdun is a war memorial located just a few hundred meters from the destroyed village Fleury (Episode 7). It was built in the 1960s, financed by Ma...

Most Powerful Militaries In The World

Hello, Steemers! You probably know that the most powerful army in the world is the American and the second most powerful Russian. But do you know which country ...

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Pišece, Slovenia. 🌌 (1/4)...

5 Places you SHOULD visit when you're in GERMANY 🌍

Neuschwanstein Castle Neuschwanstein is probably one of the most popular castles in the world. Even Walt Disney used it as inspiration for his movie Sleeping Be...

🌍 Travel Blog S1E7:The VILLAGE with a POPULATION of 0

Fleury is a village very close to Verdun. Before the war, Fleury was a village of 422 that produced agriculture and woodworking. Today, it's an artillery scarre...

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Who INVENTED the ZEPPELIN? 🛫🛬

When a German aristocrat, brigadier general Ferdinand Zeppelin retired from the army in 1891, he devoted himself to the study of aeronautics. His proposals to t...

🌍 Travel Blog S1E6: The STORY behind the Bayonet Trench

Bayonet Trench or Tranchée de Baïonnettes in French, is an unusual war memorial, located a few hundred meters north of the Douaumont Oussuary. It honors the mem...