🇫🇷 Bicycle-riding French troops ride through an abandoned and bombed out city on their way to the front in 1915, WWI.

Two Nubian women in northern Kenya, c. 1930s.

🇮🇪 An Irish crowd holding a prayer vigil outside Whitehall in London, while negotiations are underway inside for the Anglo-Irish treaty, which would bring an end to the Irish War of Independence, 1921.
Following the signing of the treaty on December 6, Ireland received dominion status and a partition created Northern Ireland.

Confederate forces under General Hood unsuccessfully assault Union positions at Franklin, Tennessee, in what became known as the Battle of Franklin, 30 November 1864

Nuns entering a polling station, UK, 1959

A British soldier carrying a bag full of mail for Christmas, the Netherlands, WWII, November 1944

Russian fighter pilot Lydia Litvyak, WWII

Floats in Macy’s Thanksgiving parade, 1970s

🇫🇷 A small village in France, c. 1900

🇬🇷 Greek women enjoying a repast, with the ruins of an ancient temple visible on the hill behind, 1930s.