I am reading about the First Barbary War from both Swedish and American perspective. I have what I believe to be a very reliable source in Swedish, and it says that the Pascha of Tripoli declared war
The San Francisco area was settled in 1776 by the Spanish officer Juan Bautista de Anza. The original reason for settling there was the construction of a Presidio (fort) designed to guard the entrance to the San Francisco Bay. The fort was a large structure designed to intimidate incoming belligerants.
Airco D.H.9The Airco D.H.9 was an unsuccessful single engined day bomber designed to replace the D.H.4 but that was let down by its original engine. The D.H.9 was very similar to the D.H.4, and shared ninety percent of the same airframe. A number of changes were made to eliminate flaws in the D.H.4, the most obvious of which saw the fuel tank and the pilot swap places so that the pilot& 39;s cockpit was located close the observer/ gunners position behind the wings.
25-Pounder at Fourth Battle of Cassino Here we see a British 25-pounder gun taking part in the initial bombardment at the start of the fourth battle of Cassino.
This replica panel (the original is the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy) refers to a lost Germanic legend about a figure called Hos who, the runic inscriptions relates, is made to suffer...
