I understand.

oh...come on now...The British Empire...hm....i think at its peak, it would be larger than the Mongol's...

in fact, i really wanna see a map on that.

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It's a map of the Roman provinces Belica and Germania Inferior.

I was born in Cologne ( Colonia Agripina ) and now life in the area of Aachen(Aduacuta).
But from the Roman time not much is left... (though Gato has knowledge about some Roman sewers in Cologne

History destroyed most of the places
If it was a certain event some 60 years ago or some angry famer riots that burned the castle in the little village my parents life at some 500 years ago
(I suppose "CASTLE" was more like a farm with a 2 meter wall )

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I know! I would like that, too. Maybe Anselme has a good one? His are from the 19th century - the peak for that empire.

I found a nice one, but it wasn't from the peak of power... Link

This might be the peak (but It's an ugly map )




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While checking about the town(and area) my parents life right now... I found this!

Oh my, there are hillbillies everywhere
Maybe we are not so different afterall

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yes Verdun... the most deadliest ever... some people said about 900'000 people died in that battle... can you imagine... what a waist of human life...
they said that it was worse than hell... rats, parts of humans bodies, mud... maybe i should make a post of that battle...

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Lol, i was born in Nancy in Lorraine, and Nancy used to be a French fortification, so when Germany took over Alsace-Lorraine, in fact they took half of Lorraine because of Nancy

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Lol, yes the Mongol Empire was huge, I havn't learned many things of the Mongol Empire, i don't really know how they conquered so much land, i just know that they were really good warriors, still today, the Mongolia is a huge country.

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we could also look at Napoleonic wars for strategies

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Thanks.

100 years ago Britain dominated the globe. And the U.S. and Germany and France were next in line. Extraordinary.

Re: the hillbillies -
ha! ha! I guess it's just another proof that we're all connected - more than we think!

Yes, this is true.

Yes. The suffering they went through was much worse then anything we have ever had to go through - and yet there was only one brief mutiny in the French army in 1917. For so many years, they kept fighting bravely. Yes - worse then hell - a total waste. It's good that we remember them. I had a relative who died during that war and is buried in France. I know that the Americans didn't see the worst of the fighting, though. Verdun and the Somme and Ypres and Mons and Passchendaele. I found this link you might find interesting.http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/WWI/WWI.html

yes, bravely, because they were feeding of hate and nationalism, I have three of my family who died one in the Marne battle and two in the Somme battle...

my history teacher who used to be British () used to say that more shelves were fired in one day than in the entire American civil war, it just rained of shelves...

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Yes - hate and nationalism - and pride. Three at the Marne and two at the Somme...I suppose almost every French family lost many men. Also, so many who came back were mutilated in some way. I guess it must take years and years for people to recover. Maybe some people never do. French casualties: 1,368,000.

Yes some people said that an entire generation just died in the 1st world war, very hard to recover from that, that is one of the reason why France capitulated so easily in the WW2, all the soldiers had the WW1 in their minds.

but anyway, trenchwarfare is over since the British used Tanks for the first time, did you know that the German accuses the British of non-conventional war when they used their tanks? lol

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