Final Battle for the Gurkhas?

The famed (and feared) Gurkhas from Nepal have been fighting in Britain’s wars for nearly 200 years. In that time, they have gone up against everyone from the Germans and Japanese to the Argentines and…

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“Remember the Lusitania!”

IT WAS JUST after 1:30 p.m. on May 7, 1915 when the lookouts aboard U-20, a German submarine operating 14 miles off the coast of south-western Ireland, spied a tempting target: the RMS Lusitania, a 31,500 ton British passenger…

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