The Polish military field of honor has been placed on the slopes between Point 445 and the abbey on the mountain of Monte Cassino. On this cemetery 1052 soldiers have been buried. The 2nd Polish Army Corps of Lieutenant General Wladyslaw Anders played an important part in the final attack on the German defenses in May 1944. Finally, on May the 18th, a platoon of the 1st Squadron of the 12th Reg...
The station attack at Cassino: 1, 19 Regiment Battle HQ; 2, The crossroads; 3, 4, Beswick's tanks, knocked out and set on fire; 5, Hubbard's tank, overturned off road; 6, Milne's tank, disabled but fighting
Armoured assistance for the infantry in Cassino on the 16th was restricted, like so much else, by the difficulties of ingress. It was only through pluck and persistence that a...
Air photograph issued for operation dickens. The road to the monastery winds up towards the top of the picture.
General Freyberg set the next attack for 24 February. Called Operation DICKENS, the attack comprised two infantry divisions and a tank regiment. Believing a direct approach would prove more effective, Freyberg planned to attack frontally into the town of Cassino, but h...
Touristics places in Santos/SP - Brazil: Monte Serrat (mount) - 147 meters high (sea level), Capela N.S.Monte Serrat (chapel) built in XVI Century and a former Casino. There's a trolley car to take you up.
Tintern Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Tyndyrn) was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on May 9, 1131. Situated on the River Wye in Monmouthshire, it was only the second Cistercian foundation in Britain, and the first in Wales. It is one of the most spectacular ruins in the country and inspired the William Wordsworth poem "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey", more than one painting b...
Le comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) is a classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered Dumas' best work, and is frequently included on lists of the best novels of all time. In the novel, the count (hero of the story) find a fabulous treasure on the islet of Monte Cristo...
The "Montecassino Abbey" has been built around 529., but it has been rebuilt many different times after it has been completely o partially destroyed by different causes: in 577 barbarians invasions, in 883 fires, in 1349 an earthquake and in 1944 it has been in the middle of a battlefield so parts of the Abbey has been destroyed.
The Imperial Abbey of Lorsch (German: Reichsabtei Lorsch; Latin: Laureshamense Monasterium, called also Laurissa and Lauresham), in Lorsch, about 10 km (6 miles) east of Worms, was one of the most renowned monasteries of the Carolingian Empire. Even in its ruined state, its remains are among the most important pre-Romanesque buildings in Germany. Its chronicle, entered in the Lorscher Codex com...
Abbey founded in 1132 by Balwin de Redvers, the name Quarr being taken due to the nearby stone quarry. The original abbey was mostly destroyed during the reign of Henry VIII with the current building being constructed in the early 20th century.
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