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On this day, 25 August 1944, a group of 32 Spanish and eight French resistance fighters tackled an entire German column, consisting of 1,300 men in 60 lorries with six tanks and two self-propelled guns, in La Madeleine, France. The Maquis blew up the road and rail bridges and positioned themselves on surrounding hills with machine guns. The battle raged from 3:00pm till noon the following day. Three Maquis were wounded, while 8 Germans were killed, nearly 200 wounded and the rest surrendered. After his humiliating defeat, the Nazi commander killed himself before he could be captured.
This is a short history of Spanish anti-Franco exiles in the French resistance: https://libcom.org/history/1939-1945-spanish-resistance-in-france https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2065714750280331/?type=3
Vallum Hadriani (Hadrian’s wall), c. 122 CE
A map illustrating the span, structure, and context of the 73 miles (118 km) Hadrian’s Wall (also called the Vallum Aelii, Aelius being the family name of emperor Hadrian). Built by a force of more than 15,000 soldiers from the three roman legions stationed in Britain, with an intent “to separate the Romans from the barbarians” (the Picts and other tribes to the north of Britain), the wall defined the northern frontier of the Roman Empire along the Tyne–Solway isthmus and created a military zone full of forts, milecastles, ramparts, roads, barracks and bustling settlements from the North Sea to the Irish Sea.
Bronze patera handle in the form of Lasa, a fate goddess, Etruscan art, Italy
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Anpu. Because I love Him. No other reason needed.
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