Sentence examples for former battlefields from inspiring English sources

In the 21st century, however, rats have been trained to comb former battlefields in search of land mines.

The most recognizable symbol of Remembrance Sunday is the red poppy, which became associated with World War I memorials after scores of the flowers bloomed in the former battlefields of Belgium and northern France.

Some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I occurred in Picardy, reflected in the melancholy English popular song "Roses of Picardy" (1916) and also in the large number of cemeteries that mark former battlefields in the Somme valley.

In the former battlefields of Aragón, Catalonia and Castile, searches conducted by Emilio Silva's Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, founded in 2000, have led to the recovery of the remains of nearly 2,000 victims of Francoist killings.

But the one patented last week by James Sabatier and Kenneth Gilbert of Oxford, Miss., is intended to find potentially millions of land mines buried in war zones and former battlefields around the world.

In this ambitious, uneven book, Bissell chronicles their pilgrimage to former battlefields and seeks to reconcile his personal "mythology," as the son of a Vietnam veteran, with the larger context of "the only war in which the United States failed to enact its will".

Almost all of his former battlefield comrades have disabled children, he says.

The United States has also pumped in more than $500 million in development aid to northern Uganda, turning a former battlefield into a vibrant piece of the Ugandan economy with new banks and hotels.

Mr. Richman said the research showed that Elliott, like many of the other Confederate veterans found in the cemetery, spent his final years living around New York, associating with his former battlefield foes.

Here at a former battlefield outside Kabul, at least half of 30 dead fighters that the the International Committee of the Red Cross found today had been shot in the head, officials close to the investigation of the deaths said.

That declaration — and the underlying issue dividing this village of 1,000 fishermen and farmers on Jeju Island — mirrors the broader quandary South Korea faces, caught between the United States, its longstanding military ally, and China, its former battlefield foe but now its leading trading partner.