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The dispatch boat to bring President Woodrow Wilson and his party at the Brest Harbour to attend the Paris Peace Conference.

The dispatch boat seen with the French flags. The boat was employed to bring United States President Woodrow Wilson and the American delegation ashore at the Brest Harbour in France for the Paris Peace Conference. A delegate from the French Chamber of Deputies goes aboard to welcome President Wilson and his party. President Wilson and his party leave the USS George Washington ship. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, December 13
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026928
A convoy of United States ships in the Atlantic Ocean.

United States Ships en route to France during World War I. A dirigible in flight as it escorts a convoy of United States ships. Ships underway as they approach Brest, France. Smoke rises from a ship.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049588
A convoy of United States ships underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Curtiss HS-2L seaplanes escort them

United States Ships en route to France during World War I. Allied Curtiss HS-2L seaplanes in flight as they escort a convoy of United States ships. Ships underway as they approach Brest, France. Aircraft in flight.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049589
Civil war breaks out in Russia after Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty, in year after Russian Revolution

After Lenin makes peace with Germany, civil war breaks out in Russia. White Russian troops are seen fighting against Bolshevik troops in the snow. American soldiers, supporting the White Russians, are seen in Archangel (Arkhangelsk). Cossacks on horseback carry the Tsarist flag. The Romanovs, Tsar Nicholas II and his family are photographed outdoors seated on a wooden bench by barricade fence at Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. Bolsheviks arresting other revolutionaries who were opposed to them, and executing them by firing squad. Vladimir Lenin with cat in his lap. View of Fanny Yefimovna Kaplan (AKA "Dora") who attempted to assassinate Lenin on August 30, 1918. View of Lenin speaking to Soviet workers. Newspaper of September 1, 1918 reports on the assassination attempt, with dateline London, August 31st: "Lenin wounded twice by assassin. Attempt on Red Premier's life at Moscow. Commissary Uritzky murdered at Petrograd." Crowd in turmoil in Moscow. Newspaper reports capture of would-be assassin, noting that "official Bolshevist paper says, "She is girl of intellectual class." Narrator states that some 500 anti-Bolsheviks are executed in Moscow.

Date: 1918, August 30
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064326
French Navy aircraft carrier Clemenceau (R 98) near completion at a dock before its launch in Brest, France.

French aircraft carrier Clemenceau ready to be launched in Brest, France. French Navy aircraft carrier Clemenceau (R98) near completion at Brest shipyard before the launch. Men at the dock instruct the ship building work.

Date: 1957, December 26
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073129
Allies capture great French Port of Brest, France (WW2)

Aerial view of French Port of Brest during World War II. Allied General Walter M Robertson commanding officer of 2nd Infantry Division accepts surrender from General der Fallschirmtruppe Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke commanding officer of German Afrika Korps. Allies take German troops as prisoners of war. Aerial view of destroyed French port of Brest.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025367