Roundman

To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die ~ Oscar Wilde

[Roundman @CharlesDensler]

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[Gage Gadsden @GGadsen32150]

Two Doughboys Walk Into a BAR.

[08/15 @O8lI5]

Polish infantry advancing during battle of Warsaw (1920)

[Historia Naval 2GM @SgmNaval]

El 1 de septiembre de 1939 Alemania realizó una maniobra en la península de Westerplatte (Polonia) con lo que daría inicio a la invasión germánica a Polonia y, con ello, a la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Hoy abordaremos este ataque con un hilo (Así que los invito a leerlo) 🧵📷 🧵

[Doug @colour_history]

1 September 1944
British Infantry of the 5th. Coldstream Guards patrol through Arras, France.
Sgt Phil Roland Wilkin is 3rd in line with the Mk lll Sten gun, second man in line is GDSM Ernest Goodman, fourth man in line is GDSM Archie Newman.

IWM BU 254

[comicfan @oldarmycomicfan]

Batman: Gotham Adventures #27 (2000)

[Salina B Baker @SalinaBBaker]

Captain John Montresor was an engineer and cartographer who first appeared in history in 1755 when he was wounded at the British disaster known as Braddock’s Defeat, the engagement at modern-day Pittsburgh that also featured the George Washington. John Montresor would continue to be seemingly everywhere during the French and Indian Wars serving under Jeffrey Amherst at the capture of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island and later through the besieging of Detroit during Pontiac’s Rebellion. While stationed at Quebec in 1759, Montresor drew a sketch of General James Wolfe before he met his hero’s death two weeks later on the plains of Abraham.

During the Revolutionary War he served the British army from 1775-1779. He was in Boston at the outset of the war and marched with Lord Hugh Percy to relieve the British troops returning from Concord. He was appointed chief engineer in America and captain in late 1775. He participated in the Battle of Long Island in August 1776. He was said to have acted with kindness toward Nathan Hale and allowed him to write to his brother Enoch before Hale was hanged as a spy on September 22, 1776.

Montresor was responsible for building many fortifications including Fort Mifflin on the Delaware River. He and his wife, Francis, purchased an island in New York Harbor which he called Montresor's Island (now Randall's Island). Montresor's maps are well-known. He was with General William Howe in December 1776, when Howe laid out the garrisons along the Delaware River. And again on the long sea voyage with Howe's army when they sailed from New York, up the Chesapeake Bay to Head of Elk, Maryland to begin the Philadelphia campaign of 1777, and participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. He resigned and returned to England in 1779.

John was known for fathering several children outside of his marriage to Francis, but supposedly ensured they were cared for. He died in in Maidenstone, Kent in June 1799 at 53.

The paint of him is by John Singleton Copley circa 1771. See less

[Plantagenet @Plantagenet1455]

Louis XIV, the Sun King, ruled France for 72 years. He strengthened the monarchy, curbed noble power and made Versailles the dazzling centre of royal life. Under his reign, France became Europe’s leading military and cultural power, but his wars left a heavy burden of debt. ⚜️

[Gregory L Little, Ed.D. @DrGregLittle2]

Small pottery bowl from Moundville, Alabama depicting the "eye-in-hand" symbol on the bottom and sides of the container.

[25th Infantry Division @25thID]

85 years of #TropicLightning begin today. 🍓⚡

[Gage Gadsden @GGadsen32150]

"Hey bro—You should probably put your bandit hat on."

[Nicolai Eberholst (Pike Grey 1914-1918) @PikeGrey1418]

Drawing of Russian casualties in the cemetery of Szczuryn (Щурин) in Volhynia by Guido Maschke, a soldier of the 265th German Reserve Infantry Regiment. Along with the 108th Infantry Division, the regiment fought the Russians for the village in June 1916.

[SPIES&VESPERS @SpiesVespers]

#OTD Sept 1 1983: Korean Air Lines 007 from New York to Seoul shot down by a fighter when it enters Soviet airspace near Sakhalin, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald. Mistaken for a spy plane during Cold War tensions

[The Name of War @TheNameofWar]

Fireman 1/C William Gibson stands guard with tommy gun in control room of surrendered Japanese submarine I-14 after prize crew brought vessel into Sagami Bay, Japan, c. August, 1945

[Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi]

German WWI soldiers grave at a small isolated German mountain cemetery at Tete de Faux in the Vosges mountains of Southern Alsace
#ww1 #blackandwhitephotography

[CIA @CIA]

Artifact of the Week: Former Soviet Pilot Victor Belenko's Knee Pad Notebook.

Learn more:
https://t.co/9o6S2VRK97

[IndoChinaWars @WarsIndo]

1/26 Marines combat assault 45 miles north of Vung Tau during Operation DECKHOUSE III, 22 August 1966, 105 mm fire, part three (3/3); video 2:18

[comicfan @oldarmycomicfan]

All-Out War #1 (1979)