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The Surrender of Napoléon Bonaparte to the British in 1815

  At around 7:30 in the evening of Sunday, 18 June 1815, Napoléon ordered his army to launch one final, desperate assault on the Anglo-Allied troops who stood between him and the town of Waterloo. His objective was to break through Wellington's defences before the growing pressure from the Prussian troops arriving on the battlefield on his right flank grew too much to bear. The Emperor personally rode alongside his Imperial Guard as its band played patriotic tunes until he was some 500 metres away from the British lines. He then sent them on their way and rode back south to await the results of his attack. It was an utter failure. The French troops, including the previously-unbeatable Guard, were hurled back in disarray. Their retreat spread panic among the rest of the army, and soon almost all of them (with the famous exception of the unit commanded by Marshal Cambronne) were fleeing headlong from the battle. Napoléon himself made a hasty exit, accompanied by a handful of companio
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World War History WWI I Germany and Hitler1938-1945 by Sherif Monem

 World war WWII was very much flawed by Germany over confidence of itself and belittling the enemy capability and resolve. Poor war plans and amateurish behavior and lack of precautions. Operation Barbarossa was very grandeur and very ambitious bt attacking the Soviet Union in three fronts and diluting the punching power. It was sufficient to attack only in one front rather than three such attacking the Capital city of Moscow only. After the Barbarossa started  Hermann Goring lied and made rosy and false promises that the Sixth army fighting at Stalingrad could be supplied by air. This was crazy assumption and beyond the capability of the Wulfvaffe and adding to that many German planes were shot down during the supply operation. The final outcome instead of a decision to retreat the sixth army was encircled and defeated.
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The Start of World War II on September 1939

Eighty years ago today, Adolf Hitler's Germany staged a fake attack on a radio station by German prisoners dressed as Polish soldiers. A few hours later, German planes bombed the Polish town of Wieluń and World War II was underway. The blow fell particularly heavily on Poland, which was woefully unprepared for Germany's assault. At one point, Polish horse cavalry went up against German panzers -- a futile, suicidal attack that spoke more to the Polish army's valor than it did to their common sense. The war ended in May 1945, but not until 50 million had died. Six million of that total were killed in Poland. And today, 80 years after Germany deliberately and knowingly started a world war, the German president apologized to Poland for his nation's sins. Start of World War II: September 1939-March 1940 On Sep­tember 1, 1939 , just before Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland that marked t­he beginning of World War II, Zygmunt Klukowski, a young Polish doctor, confi
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Events in year of 1896

Events in year of 1896 01-02 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops) 01-03 Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid 01-04 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state 01-06 Cecil Rhodes resigns as Premier of Cape colony 01-07 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook 01-12 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC) 01-18 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC) 01-18 British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa 01-27 Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory 01-29 Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer 02-08 Western Conference forms of Midwestern University, later renamed Big 10 Conf 02-14 George Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa, 8-7 for inning 02-14 South Africa all out for 30 vs. England - their lowest ever 02-14 Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0 02-14 Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Ju
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Spread of Christianity in Congo by Hanging

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Raping of German Women by Russian, American and British Soldiers at the End of WW II

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In Taken by Force , J. Robert Lilly estimates the number of rapes committed by U.S. servicemen in Germany to be 11,000. [52] As in the case of the American occupation of France after the D-Day invasion, many of the American rapes in Germany in 1945 were gang rapes committed by armed soldiers at gunpoint. [53]   In 2015, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that German historian Miriam Gebhardt "believes that members of the US military raped as many as 190,000 German women by the time West Germany regained sovereignty in 1955, with most of the assaults taking place in the months immediately following the US invasion of Nazi Germany. The author bases her claims in large part on reports kept by Bavarian priests in the summer of 1945." he majority of the assaults were committed in the Soviet occupation zone; estimates of the numbers of German women raped by Soviet soldiers have ranged up to 2 million. [7] [8] [9] [10] According to historian William Hitchcock , in
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