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St. Finbarr's Oratory, Gaugane Barra, Ireland. According to Cardinal Timothy Manning, Archbishop of Los Angeles, as posted on the St. Finbarr's Oratory website: This hallowed shrine of St. Finbarr dates back to the 6th century where he communed...

Trees in Gaugane Barra National Forest Park, County Cork, Ireland.

Flowers of Gaugane Barra National Forest Park, County Cork, Ireland.

A photograph showing a US Grant tank at the Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, February 1943. The Allies lost this battle during the North Africa Campaign (1942-3).

A February 1942 photograph of a column of US-made Grant tanks of the British 5th Royal Tank Regiment during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1942 photograph of General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general and then field marshal during the Second World War (1939-45). He is here seen in a Grant Tank as he commands the British Eighth Army in North Africa. (Imperial War...

In this clay tablet, Shamash-shum-ukin confirms a grant which was previously made by Ashur-nadin-shumi. The royal seal on this clay tablet is not an original impression, but a man-modelled copy. It depicts the Babylonia king fighting a oryx...

George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876) was an officer in the US Army, serving in the cavalry from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War and the wars against the Plains Indians 1866-1876. Although he became a widely recognized hero during...

The Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) is the most famous engagement of the Great Sioux War (1876-1877). Five companies of the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876) were wiped out in one day by the...

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) was the commander of the Confederate western armies in the early months of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Over the course of his 34-year military career, Johnston served in the armies of three republics...