Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/March 2015/Articles
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- Exhumation of Richard III of England (Prioryman)
- One of Britain's most controversial monarchs was thrust into the news again recently with the discovery of his remains on the site of the former Greyfriars Church in Leicester. Nominator Prioryman's successful FAC in February allowed him to bring the article to the main page on 26 March, to coincide with Richard's reburial at Leicester Cathedral.
- James B. Weaver (Coemgenus)
- James Weaver was a general in the American Civil War but first and foremost a politician. In nominator Coemgenus' words, "From Republican to Greenback to Populist to Democrat, Weaver moved around the political parties of Gilded Age America, always in support of a fair shake for farmers and laborers. Or, that's how he'd tell it. Opponents might call him a chronic office-seeker and grabber of Indian lands."
- Trinity (nuclear test) (Hawkeye7)
- The world's first explosion of a nuclear weapon should need little introduction to most members of this project, and paved the way for the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki later in 1945. Hawkeye took the article though GAN and ACR prior to its successful FAC nomination, and hopes to see it on main page in time for the 70th anniversary of the test on 16 July.
- William of Wrotham (Ealdgyth)
- This article is about an English cleric and royal administrator who was known, perhaps unfairly, as one of King John's "evil counsellors". He was also closely involved in naval affairs. Ealdgyth brought the article to GAN back in 2010, and ACR a few months ago, on the way to achieving its Featured status.
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Antonie Frederik Jan Floris Jacob van Omphal, Dutch Lieutenant-General, as painted by Herman Antonie de Bloeme -
Doge of Venice Leonardo Loredan, whose rulership was particularly marked with war. He died during the War of the League of Cambrai.
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The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez is a near-contemporaneous painting of the end of the 1624 Spanish Siege of Breda in the Netherlands. Justinus van Nassau is seen surrendering to Ambrogio Spinola. -
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Deutsche Mark note issued by the allies in 1948, just after World War II, in the newly-divided West Germany. -
A Weimar Republic Rentenmark repurposed by the Soviets in 1948 (by adding a stamp!) for use in the newly-divided East Germany. -
Vaxholm Fortress was once an incredibly important part of Stockholm, Sweden's defenses. However, by the 19th century if had become so militarily useless that, according to our article on it, "the great Prussian Field Marshal Von Moltke was only ever seen to smile twice. Once when they told him his mother-in-law was dead and again when he saw Vaxholm Fortress."
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Florence Nightingale's Hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War. This version replaced a previous rather good restoration of an unfortunately rather bad source image by Jake Wartenberg, using a very recently released improved source image. Such things happen, unfortunately
(art by William Simpson; restoration by Adam Cuerden)
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- Bill Denny (Australian politician) (Peacemaker67)
- Peacemaker's first appearance on this month's list covers a left-wing Australian politician who served as the Attorney-General of the state of South Australia before World War I, and as a junior officer in the light horse and artillery during the war. He was re-elected while still serving overseas in 1918 and served in various ministries during the periods his party was in power until he lost his seat in the 1933 state election.
- Stanley Price Weir (Peacemaker67)
- Peacemaker's second appearance provides a biography of a South Australian public servant and citizen soldier who commanded the 10th Battalion during heavy fighting in Gallipoli and France during 1915 and 1916. After returning to Australia Weir remained active in the Citizens Military Forces until 1921, and served in several senior public service roles with varying levels of success.
- SMS Dresden (1907) (Parsecboy)
- The German light cruiser SMS Dresden had a short, but remarkably busy career. She was deployed several times to the Americas and Mediterranean in the years before World War I. Following the commencement of hostilities she attacked British shipping off South America before joining the German East Asia Squadron at Easter Island. The sole survivor of the German ships involved in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, Dresden was scuttled at the remote Más a Tierra in the Pacific on 14 March 1915.
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