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  • Thumbnail for Prisoner of war
    history, prisoners of war would most often be either slaughtered or enslaved. Early Roman gladiators could be prisoners of war, categorised according to their...
    132 KB (14,538 words) - 09:45, 17 November 2024
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    States' entry 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...
    83 KB (11,303 words) - 04:00, 26 September 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) - 22:21, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union
    personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and...
    17 KB (1,899 words) - 03:40, 24 October 2024
  • The Prisoner is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, with possible contributions from George Markstein. McGoohan portrays Number Six...
    51 KB (5,571 words) - 22:14, 14 November 2024
  • ... If both prisoners testify against each other, both will be sentenced to two years in jail. The prisoners are given a little time to think this over...
    73 KB (9,436 words) - 06:22, 27 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....
    148 KB (15,582 words) - 13:19, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Japanese prisoners of war in World War II
    ties with Japan, and many provided military intelligence to the Allies. The prisoners taken by the Western Allies were held in generally good conditions...
    46 KB (5,811 words) - 22:11, 6 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) - 09:14, 25 October 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) - 20:02, 27 October 2024
  • based on the 1999 novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)...
    117 KB (9,188 words) - 17:52, 11 November 2024
  • it to Charles Bronson, after the American actor. He was returned to prison in 1988 on conviction concerning another robbery. He is a violent prisoner, and...
    56 KB (6,558 words) - 12:14, 2 November 2024
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    Jeremiah Denton (category Vietnam War prisoners of war)
    aviator taken captive during the Vietnam War. Denton was widely known for enduring almost eight years of grueling conditions as an American prisoner of war...
    32 KB (2,960 words) - 01:03, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hermann Fegelein
    as follows: Enemy soldiers in uniform were to be taken prisoner, and those found out of uniform were to be shot. Jewish males, with the exception of a...
    49 KB (5,956 words) - 01:21, 23 October 2024
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    were taken prisoner by Kumbha. Furthermore, the Rana laid siege to Mandu, the capital of Malwa, and carried off its sultan, Mahmud Khalji, captive to Chittor...
    6 KB (609 words) - 14:23, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gus March-Phillipps
    heavy fire from a German patrol. Four of the raiders were injured and taken prisoner, four men went on the run but were eventually captured; the rest of...
    6 KB (535 words) - 13:44, 12 November 2024
  • Guesclin at Cocherel and taken prisoner. Released next year, he received the seigniory of Nemours and took the oath of fealty to the French king, Charles...
    2 KB (285 words) - 13:13, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Italian prisoners of war in World War I
    Around 600,000 Italian soldiers were taken prisoner during the First World War, about half in the aftermath of Caporetto. Roughly one Italian soldier in...
    12 KB (1,408 words) - 20:13, 17 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rudolf Hess
    negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace. He was still serving...
    86 KB (11,388 words) - 07:28, 15 November 2024
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    Dieppe Raid (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)
    killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. 5,000 were Canadians, who suffered a 68% casualty rate, with 3,367 killed, wounded or taken prisoner. The operation was...
    98 KB (12,636 words) - 21:34, 17 November 2024
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