The ship carried 1,816 captured British prisoners of war (POWs). The Japanese military, in violation of the Geneva Convention ...

During the Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, one documentary film The Sinking of Lisbon Maru garnered widespread acclaim in China ...

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British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice ... of them falling into foreign hands. In 1816 Parliament created a commission to assess ...

When the war broke out, John enlisted in the 2 Army ... the Lisbon Maru. There were 1,816 British and Canadian captives on the ship, held in appalling conditions. One survivor told the BBC last ...

During the War of 1812, British merchants lost their American ... Henry Clay and John Calhoun backed James Madison’s Tariff of 1816, as did ex-free traders Jefferson and John Adams.

A British soldier taken into custody during World War I for writing phony checks became ... who was born as a slave in 1816. After his owner suddenly sold Brown's wife and children to a new ...

A rare Iron Age war trumpet found in a lump of clay ... The only other known British carnyx was found in 1816, according to Nigel Mills from auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb. Mr Bailey, who will ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login A Political History of the Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political history of the former British West African ...

They were bound for Sierra Leone, a British colony that had been ... Cuffe's plans were delayed by the War of 1812, but in 1815-1816 he made a successful voyage to Sierra Leone with 38 colonists.

Nepal surrendered a part of its western territory in 1816 after its forces were defeated by the British East India company ... the so-called "cartographic war" has triggered nationalist sentiment ...