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The Arlington National Cemetery project focuses on one of the world's most famous military cemeteries, Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, United States. Our project goals are to 1) build trees for every individual buried at the cemetery and 2) provide information for people learning how to research Arlington ancestors.==About Arlington==Since its establishment on June 28, 1864,...
For the British medal by the same name, see here . == The Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) is the United States Army's second highest military decoration for soldiers who display extraordinary heroism in combat with an armed enemy force. Actions that merit the Distinguished Service Cross must be of such a high degree that they are above those required for all other U.S. combat decorations, but...
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. It ultimately ended with the Americans defeating the Spaniards. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had been war scares before, as in the Virginius Affair in 1873. By 1897–98, American public opinion grew angrier at reports of Spanish at...
World War I ( WWI ) was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based o...
This project is intended for all Naval personnel. Please feel free to include any that served the United States in this capacity from 1786 to Present. A separate project has been set up for those that served in the Continental Navy 1775 - 1785 .The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United...
Wikipedia Article The United States Naval Academy's campus is located in Annapolis, Maryland, at the confluence of the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay.In its most recent report, the 2012 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked the US Naval Academy as the No. 1 Public Liberal Arts College in the nation, tied for first with the US Military Academy. In the category of High School Counselor ...
For DAR information, see Daughters of the American Revolution . The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) or American War of Independence began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and concluded in a global war between several European great powers. The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby many of the...
Västgötadals l. Västgöta-Dals regemente Västgöta-Dals regemente (№ 16) var ett infanteriförband inom svenska armén som verkade i olika former åren 1624-1901. Förbandsledningen var förlagd i Vänersborgs garnison i Grunnebo hed . Historia Regementet har sitt ursprung i de fänikor som sattes upp på 1500-talet i Västergötland och Dalsland. År 1615 organiserades dessa enheter till Västergötlands sto...
Regementet sattes upp 1757 som Putbus och Platens husarkår, av Fredrik Ulrik Putbus och Philip von Platen. Kåren kom 1758 att bilda Svenska husarregementet i Pommern. Fyra år senare, 1762, delades regementet till två självständiga regementen, Blå (Putbusska) husarregementet och Gula (Wrangelska) husarregementet. Fyra år senare, 1766, sammanfördes de två regementena och bildade Svenska husarreg...
World War I (WWI) , predominantly called the World War or the Great War was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Tri...
Casualties of World War Two=See also - World War II Main pageThis is a universal project. Please link Geni profiles of Military Casualties to the project.Because many WW2 deaths went unrecorded estimates for the total number of casualties in the war vary. Some estimates suggest that 75 million people died in the war, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians. ["Worl...
World War II , or the Second World War (often abbreviated as WWII or WW2 ), was a global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved a vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military...
World War II Allied leaders of World War II Axis Leaders of World War ll Military Commanders of World War ll World War II, or the Second World War (often abbreviated as WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers: eventually forming two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis. ...
The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Tsar Peter I formed a modern regular army built on the German model, but with a new aspect: officers were not necessarily from nobility , talented commoners were given promotions that eventually included a noble title at the attainment of an officer's rank (such ...
Bohuslän Regiment " The Green Dragoons " The Bohuslän Regiment (Swedish: Bohusläns regemente), designation I 17, was a Swedish Army infantry regiment that traces its origins back 1661. It was disbanded in 1992. The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the Province of Bohuslän , and it was later garrisoned there in the town Uddevalla. While the history of the regiment, according to...
Skånska husarregementet Skånska husarregementet (K 5) var ett kavalleriförband inom svenska armén som verkade i olika former åren 1658-1709 och 1709-1927. Förbandsledningen var förlagd i Helsingborgs garnison . Under åren har regementet kallats även Kungl. Skånska kavalleriregementet (1658-1676), Norra skånska kavalleriregementet (1676-1801), Skånska linjedragonregementet (1801- 1807) och Skåns...
Hats' Russian War (1741-1743) The Russo-Swedish War of 1741-1743 was instigated by the Hats , a Swedish political party that aspired to regain the territories lost to Russia during the Great Northern War , and by French diplomacy, which sought to divert Russia's attention from supporting its long-standing ally, the Habsburg monarchy , in the War of the Austrian Succession . Swedish preparations...
1651-1657: Didrik von Cappellen 1658-1662: Günter von Rosenskans 1663-1666: Kristian Urne 1667-1671: Björn Svinhufvud 1673-1676: Jakob Stegman † 1676-1683: Evert Horn 1684-1694: Reinhold Johan von Fersen 1702-1710: Anders Lagercrona 1711-1717: Magnus Cronberg
Great Northern War==== The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and Augustus II the Strong of Saxony – Poland–Lithuania . Frederick IV...
Dalarna Regiment The Dalarna Regiment (Swedish: Dalregementet ), designations I 13 and I 13/Fo 53 , was a Swedish Army infantry regiment that traced its origins back to the 16th century. The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the province of Dalarna , where it was later garrisoned. The unit was disbanded as a result of the disarmament policies set forward in the Defence Act of 2...
Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly owing to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly ...
The purpose of this project is to find and gather the different profiles who took part in the Finnish civil war 1918 and fell there. See Project war dead in Finland : The Finnish civil war was a struggle between the white Finnish Senate in Vasa and the red People’s Commissariat in Helsinki, between 27 January and 15 May 1918. On the white side, there were the senate troops and on the opposing...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall " The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall USA website is dedicated to honoring those who died in the Vietnam War. Since it first went on line in 1996 it has evolved into something more. It is now also a place of healing for those affected by one of the most divisive wars in our nation's history." Vietnam Veterans of America --- "Founded in 1978, Vietnam Veterans of...
Korean War (25 June 1950 – armistice signed 27 July 1953) was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end ...
The Confederate States of America ( CSA or C.S.A. ), commonly referred to as the Confederacy , was an unrecognized secessionist state existing from 1861–65. It was originally formed by seven slave states in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system of production which in turn largely rel...