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Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations any growth of division between the proud and the happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the New World.

- Winston Churchill

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Today in Military History

August 22

1485:

The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the War of the Roses.

1642:

Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War.

1775:

King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.

1798:

French troops land in Ireland to aid the Irish Rebellion.

1864:

Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The International Red Cross is formed.

1875:

The Treaty of St. Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified. Japan ceded Sakhalin to Russia in exchange for the Kuril Islands.

1910:

Japan annexes Korea.

1914:

In Belgium, British and German troops meet in battle for the first time in World War I.

1916:

Lloyd-George announces 35 Zeppelins destroyed by the Allies

1941:

German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.

1942:

Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)

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