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  • Thumbnail for Prisoner of war
    part of human history, prisoners of war would most often be either slaughtered or enslaved. Early Roman gladiators could be prisoners of war, categorised...
    131 KB (14,469 words) - 16:08, 11 October 2024
  • No quarter (redirect from Take No Prisoners)
    during military conflict or piracy, implies that combatants would not be taken prisoner, but killed. Since the Hague Convention of 1899, it is considered...
    7 KB (1,004 words) - 14:47, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prisoner of War Medal
    into World War I was April 6). It is awarded to any person who was taken prisoner or held captive while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United...
    83 KB (11,308 words) - 04:00, 26 September 2024
  • The Prisoner is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, with possible contributions from George Markstein. McGoohan portrays Number Six...
    51 KB (5,575 words) - 17:26, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
    German government found that 3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941...
    17 KB (1,888 words) - 07:49, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
    fellow soldiers down ... Our soldiers could be taken prisoner as well. And we expect our soldiers to be treated well by the adversary, by the enemy....
    142 KB (14,934 words) - 02:36, 9 October 2024
  • situations involving strategic behavior. In casual usage, the label "prisoner's dilemma" may be applied to any situation in which two entities could gain important...
    73 KB (9,420 words) - 10:07, 13 October 2024
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    Hannibal Directive (category Prisoners of war)
    "Undoubtedly," she replied." No mother would want her son to be killed rather than be taken prisoner... You prefer to wait until he returns, even if it goes...
    66 KB (8,006 words) - 13:09, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Japanese prisoners of war in World War II
    campaign launched in 1944 to encourage prisoner-taking was partially successful, and the number of prisoners taken increased significantly in the last year...
    46 KB (5,811 words) - 22:11, 6 September 2024
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    the Germans was hit in the foot. The crew then surrendered and were taken prisoner. The RAF Historical Branch later stated that “some sort of fight took...
    7 KB (650 words) - 18:30, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mikhail Meandrov
    – 1 August 1946) was an Imperial Russian and later Soviet officer. Taken prisoner by the Germans in World War II near Leningrad in 1941, he later became...
    6 KB (246 words) - 02:55, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hermann Fegelein
    children were to be driven away. Fegelein interpreted these orders as follows: Enemy soldiers in uniform were to be taken prisoner, and those found out...
    49 KB (5,956 words) - 16:49, 10 September 2024
  • belongings stolen during admission into POW camps, and that the prisoners were taken to the camps into overcrowded buses, with little to no access to...
    67 KB (6,492 words) - 23:20, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Sarangpur
    inscriptions, after Sarangpur was burnt down, countless enemy soldiers were taken prisoner by Kumbha. Furthermore, the Rana laid siege to Mandu, the capital of...
    6 KB (609 words) - 14:23, 8 October 2024
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuarón from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is based on the 1999 novel...
    116 KB (9,188 words) - 07:29, 13 October 2024
  • 1988 on conviction concerning another robbery. He is a violent prisoner, and has taken numerous hostages in the course of confrontations with guards,...
    56 KB (6,511 words) - 21:09, 26 September 2024
  • Pakistan retaliated, causing an Indian warplane to be shot down and its pilot to be taken prisoner by the Pakistan military before being returned on 1...
    78 KB (7,614 words) - 17:53, 12 September 2024
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    Valerian (emperor) (category Monarchs taken prisoner in wartime)
    soon after made prisoner, grew old in ignominious slavery among the Parthians." An early Christian source, Lactantius (thought to be virulently anti-Persian...
    20 KB (2,005 words) - 21:35, 9 September 2024
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    Yom Kippur War (category Articles that may be too long from September 2021)
    helicopters—and 330 taken prisoner. On 7 October, David Elazar visited Shmuel Gonen, commander of the Israeli Southern Command—who had only taken the position...
    249 KB (31,441 words) - 21:40, 12 October 2024
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    Jeremiah Denton (category Vietnam War prisoners of war)
    12, 1973. As one of the earliest and highest-ranking officers to be taken prisoner in North Vietnam, Denton was forced by his captors to participate...
    32 KB (2,970 words) - 01:59, 7 October 2024
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