Sunday, November 30, 2025

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, November 30, 1915. The Ross.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, November 30, 1915. Carranza on the Inter...:   Venustiano Carranza met Col. Augustus P. Blocksom on the International Bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville. People were smiling, but ...

Tuesday, November 30, 1915. Carranza on the International Bridge.

 

And for the last day of November:

Interesting that Ross went with a sporting theme. The Canadian Army had adopted a variant of the Ross as a service rifle, where it really hadn't worked out due to being too finely machined to really function well in the dirty conditions of Northern France.  In some ways, that fact would lead to the Ross' demise.

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