Gavrilo Princip
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Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 Ju
Princip in his prison cell on 4 July 1914
Princip family home in Obljaj
Gavrilo Princip's parents, Marija and Petar Princip c. 1927
(left to right) Trifko Grabež, Milan Ciganović, and Gavrilo Princip in Kalemegdan Park, Belgrade, c. May 1914.
World War I
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World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. One of the deadliest conflicts in history, World War
Gavrilo Princip
…of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The assassination set off the July Crisis, a series of events that within one month led to the outbreak of World War I. Princip was born in western Bosnia to a poor Serb family. Aged 13, he was sent to Sarajevo, the capital of Austrian-occupied Bosnia, to study at the…
Bataille de Verdun 1916
British 39th Siege Battery RGA Somme 1916
American troops going forward to the battle line in the Forest of Argonne. France, September 26, 1918. NARA 530748
Arab Camel Corps