Lincoln assassination conspirators: Grisly last moments of Civil War-era prisoners convicted in conspiring to kill president. By Beth Stebner Published: 03:44 GMT, 21 June 2012 | Updated: 05:47 GMT, 21 June 2012 While actor John Wilkes Booth succeeded in his deranged mission of assassinating President Abraham Lincoln near the end of the Civil War, several other conspirators were not so successful – and were hanged because of it.
On July 7, 1865, four conspirators – Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt – were hanged by the neck at Fort McNair in Washington D.C. Their deaths were a culmination of sorts of a nation ravaged by war, bitter conflict, and the death of the nation’s commander-in-chief, the Great Emancipator. Walk of the damned: The condemned Lincoln conspirators can be seen on the scaffold at Fort McNair in Washington with officers on July 7, 1865, following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln Long drop and sudden stop: The bodies of the four conspirators were hanged for around 25 minutes before being cut down.
Workers restoring former Russian mansion find massive treasure hoard wrapped in newspaper from 1917. Over 1,000 pieces of jewellery found in storage space between two floorsTrove includes silver service sets stamped with noble family's nameRow develops as various parties lay claim to the treasureToo early to put estimate on value of the St Petersburg hoard By Nick Enoch Published: 00:29 GMT, 31 March 2012 | Updated: 00:31 GMT, 31 March 2012 For years, kopeck-pinching Soviets sat down in a cheap restaurant in a former mansion of the nobility for plain meals, unaware of the treasure secreted nearby.
Workers restoring the building, in St Petersburg, this week finally found it, unexpectedly, in a storage space hidden between two floors - more than 1,000 pieces of jewellery, silver service sets stamped with the name of one of Russia’s most prominent noble families, mirrors and brushes in silver frames. Many of them were wrapped in newspapers dated from the early months of 1917, as Russia careened toward the Bolshevik Revolution that ended life as the nobles had known it. Room for one more? Stunning pictures of U.S. troops crammed into military plane as they fly out to Afghanistan. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 03:27 GMT, 28 March 2012 | Updated: 13:15 GMT, 28 March 2012 U.S. troops sit tightly beside one another in a packed aircraft as they await their departure to Afghanistan, in stunning pictures taken today.
The servicemen sit aboard the military plane at the U.S. Transit Centre in Manas, 30 km outside Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek. The onward movement of personnel to and from Afghanistan is one of the four mission pillars of the centre that is used as a transit hub for about 15,000 troops, planes and 500 tons of cargo a month.
Tight: US servicemen inside a military plane before their departure to Afghanistan from the US transit center in Manas, 30 km outside Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, on March 27, 2012 Natural: The servicemen talk to one another and stare up at the cameras before their departure to Afghanistan Joking: The men pull funny faces as they await their deployment in Afghanistan where dozens of Americans are killed each month. Bravery of soldier wounded in Afghan blast caught on camera. Private Stephen Bainbridge lost both legs after stepping on a mine in Helmand on Remembrance Day last year By Sarah Bruce Published: 11:11 GMT, 27 March 2012 | Updated: 14:05 GMT, 27 March 2012 In the horrific roll call of death and injury that emanates from Afghanistan, it is sometimes easy to forget that each name, rank and number has its own unique story.
That is what makes this image of a seriously wounded Scottish soldier being treated in the heat of battle such an immediate snapshot of the random cruelty of war. But the story of Private Stephen Bainbridge also describes the true bravery of a man forced to rebuild his life after a devastating injury sustained on Remembrance Day last year. Injured: Private Stephen Bainbridge lies in agony while being treated by medics, after the Helmand IED explosion which saw him lose both his legs. ‘As I was coming back down it didn’t feel like I was falling, more like floating. Lt Weir recalled: ‘I was hit by a wave of sound and debris.
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