
Etiket: American
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Josiah Harlan, known as the “Prince of Ghor”: An American adventurer who went to 19th-century Afghanistan to become a king. He Led the first slave revolt in Afghanistan against warlord Muhammad Murad Beg, freeing over 400 slaves. later serving as a Union Army general in the Civil War, 1838 (216×321)

![During the liberation of Lower Normandy during the summer of 1944, in the American sector. A local assembly solemnly gathered in the courtyard of a farm, under the watchful eyes of two GIs. [1920×1513]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/i12nr8r8bb9h1.jpeg)
![German technical drawing of underwater mines being used in American warfare, ca 1890 [633 x 602]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/p0hgw8ier32h1.png)

![An American soldier gives water to a wounded Japanese ally after the Battle of Tianjin, China during the Boxer War. 1900. [965×1000]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/8aj9wll1q32h1.jpeg)

![John Wesley Hardin, American Wild West outlaw and gunfighter who claimed 42 kills, photographed c. 1871 [900×900]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/b80ptxoqnp2h1.jpeg)

![Women of Carentan, France, recently occupied by American troops, place flowers at a spot where an American paratrooper died. His helmet, gun and gasmask mark his grave as does a cross with the notation, “Mourt Pour La France”. 19 June, 1944. (Signal Corps photo and caption) [2048×1690]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/lhq8cnz6gw2h1.jpeg)

![A bugler blows taps at the close of Memorial Day service at the American Military Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands, where lie thousands of American heroes of World War II. April 30, 1945. [1080×889]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/xcoiiyrflw2h1.jpeg)

![U.S. Army Cpt. J. McMahon and an unidentified American soldier of the Ninth U.S. Army carry a small German girl across the destroyed bridge at Tangermünde over the River Elbe in May, 1945. [1377×1721]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/7zhfdyaay93h1.jpeg)



![A young Mohamed Atta in the desert. Atta would go on to crash American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 2001. Photo was taken mid/late 1970s, likely in Egypt. [718×575]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/d4kb15dmwb3h1.jpeg)
