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- Battle of Ticinus (Gog the Mild)
- The latest in Gog's series on the River Ticinus in northern Italy. Hannibal's 6,000 Libyan and Iberian cavalry fought Scipio's 3,600 Roman, Italian and Gallic cavalry and a bunch of javelinmen (numbers unknown). Scipio himself was wounded and only escaped with the aid of his son, the legendary Scipio Africanus.
- W. Somerset Maugham (Tim riley)
- Although famous for his literary output, Somerset Maugham finds himself here owing to his service in World War I. Too old for combat, he was employed initially as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross in France. After moving to Switzerland following the birth of his daughter in 1915 he began working for MI6, using his celebrity as cover while he acted as conduit between London and British agents behind enemy lines. His duties took him to Samoa to observe German activity in the Pacific, and later to Russia to try and aid Alexander Kerensky's republican government. Maugham's wartime espionage activities provided inspiration for subsequent stories.
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- Big Bertha (howitzer) (Vami IV)
- The 42-cm kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12 (short naval cannon), or First World War broke out, the two available M-Gerät guns, still prototypes, were sent to Liège, Belgium, and destroyed Forts Pontisse and Loncin. German soldiers gave it nickname "Big Bertha", which then spread through German newspapers to the Allies, who used it as a nickname for all superheavy German artillery. The Paris Gun, a railway gunused to bomb Paris in 1918, has historically been confused for the M-Gerät.
- Witold Pilecki (Piotrus)
- Pilecki was a Polish cavalry officer, secret police on charges of working for "foreign imperialism" and, after torture and a show trial, was executed in 1948.
- Fort Southerland (Hog Farm)
- Fort Southerland is a Camden Expedition Sites National Historic Landmark. Along with Fort Lookout(Redoubt A), it is one of only two of the redoubts around Camden still in existence.
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