BBC7 年
Wars in Africa, late-19th and early-20th Century
During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in ... The Sudan in 1898. The Aro War in Nigeria in 1901-02. The Maxim gun became so renowned, it even featured in poems.
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19th century advances in medical knowledge
In the mid-19th century Thomas Rocyn Jones set up a practice ... lecturer in orthopaedics at Liverpool University. During World War One, he was put in charge of military orthopaedics.