
Etiket: Expeditionary
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![Brazilian soldier in Southern Italy battling the nazis, 1944. Written in the artillery shell is the quote “the snake is smoking”, a symbol of the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces adopted in response to critics who said “it was more likely for a snake to smoke, than to Brazil to join the war”[788×1024]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jsc97y6b30ug1.jpeg)
Brazilian soldier in Southern Italy battling the nazis, 1944. Written in the artillery shell is the quote “the snake is smoking”, a symbol of the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces adopted in response to critics who said “it was more likely for a snake to smoke, than to Brazil to join the war”[788×1024]

![Dignitaries at the dedication of the Newfoundland Memorial at Beaumont-Hamel, France, 7 June 1925. Behind the speaker are Field Marshall Earl Haig, Commander of the British Expeditionary Force, and Marshal of France Émile Fayolle, who commanded the French Sixth Army during the battle. [2500×3311]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/s52cxau27kah1-scaled.jpeg)