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    Bayern

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    1. numis , All i know about the Cubans which fought into the Brigadas Internacionales is that one of these was Rolando Masferrer , a well known leftist and adventurer , he was Senator and leaded a gang called Tigres de Masferrer . take a look in Wiki to his Biography ,Rolando Masferrer Rojas .  about 1000 Cubans fought in the Spanish Civil War for the Republican side, the casualties were high some sources said that died. Another well known combattant was Pablo de la Torriente Brau ,Ramiro Azcuy, Joaquin Ordoqui, Jaime Cuevas , Policarpo Candon , Alberto Bofill and  many more 

    2. On 27/04/2021 at 23:08, Bayern said:

      A very strange First Aid Station !

       

      On 14/05/2021 at 14:08, MG1918 said:

      worse than that, it is a US military dentist!!!!

       

      So back to MG08...

       

       

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      Military Dentist ,Thrilling !

       

      20 hours ago, MG1918 said:

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      The heavy old Lady and her not much lighter daughter

      On 26/10/2021 at 11:51, MG1918 said:

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      Good old Maxim , Sokolov  erbeutet ,( booty ) after the Battle of Tannenberg the Germans catch a great amount of MGs from Samsonov s Army .many nearly without a shot fired in angry because of the prudence of some regiment commanders who envoyed the valuable MGs to the Reaguard of the Regimental Trains , at least according to Alexander Solhenitsyn 

    3. About King Ferdinand of Bulgaria he was personally Roman Catholic , of the House Coburg Kohary a Catholic branch of the House Saxo Coburg Gotha , his mother was Princess Clementine of Orleans and his first wife and mother of his children was Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon Parma , both women Catholics . Ferdinand caused a certain amount of irritation when he decided to re Baptize his son Boris  two years after his first baptize as Roman Catholic , this time into the Orthodoxy and asked Czar Nicholas II to be Godfather, He was not King yet but Prince of Bulgaria , Bulgarians were mostly Orthodox as the Russians and existed strong feelings pro Russia. the other son Prince Kyrill was baptized Roman Catholic.  King Ferdinand I of Romania was Roman Catholic, his wife Marie of Saxo Coburg Gotha , anglican and the future King Carol II was baptized Orthodox 

    4. Connecticut organized the 3rd Volunteer Infantry Regiment for Three Months service it was mustered in New Haven under Colonel Arnold the 14 of May 1861 , Cnel Arnold resigned and was replaced by Cnel Chatfield , the Regiment first was sent to Washington DC at disposition of the high Command , participated later in the operations in Virginia and finally took part in the battle of Bull Run with distinction . It was mustered out in August 1861 in Hartford . 

      The Regiment was part of the first Brigade under Colonel Keyes in the first Division commanded by Gral Tyler

    5. PREM, for the future take in account that Muslim States never uses something like a Cross in badges or emblems or decorations. inclusive misunderstandig the Geneva Cross for a Christian Symbol they dont uses the Red Cross Flag or Brassard ,instead they have the Red Half Moon or the Red Lion and sun in times of the Imperial Iran , the Lion and sun badge was abolished in 1980 and replaced with the Red crescent

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