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 ww1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
British action opened another front in the South with the Gallipoli (1915) and Mesopotamia campaigns, though initially the Turks were successful in repelling enemy incursion.
Further to the west in Palestine, initial British failures were overcome with Jerusalem being captured in December 1917 and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under Edmund Allenby going on to break the Ottoman forces at the Battle of Megiddo (September 1918).
The British Army, using a large number of tanks, attacked at Amiens on August 8 causing such surprise and confusion that German commander-in-chief, General Ludendorff, said it was "the flest day of the German army."
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 World War I : WW I
British policymakers feared the prospect of another German military victory over France like the Franco-Prussian War, which could have reasonably resulted in a German take-over of France's formal colonies, a sort of reversal of the actual outcome of the Great War, after which Britain occupied the vast majority of German and Ottoman colonies as "protectorates".
British gravitation towards the Franco-Russian alliance, fuelled by alarm at the German Empire's challenge to British naval supremacy.
British action opened another front in the South with the Gallipoli (1915) and Mesopotamia campaigns, intially the Turks were successful in repelling enemy incursion.
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 Introduction
During the spring of 1944 intensive planning for the Allied invasion of France and the high number of anticipated casualties gave the Army second thoughts.
Army authorities argued that assignments available to fl nurses were limited because they were only allowed to care for fl troops in fl wards or hospitals.
The Army nurse in the Pacific theater performed her tasks efficiently, compassionately, and courageously whether she was caring for casualties in the field or patients evacuated from the front lines.
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 The 10th Battalion Green Howards (1914 - 1918)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During this period, the battalion remained in Epinette area,doing their best to keep their parapets intact and their trenches drained, and losing small numbers of men almost daily from the enemy guns and snipers.
During period of the Battle - July to November - some 27 million shells were fired by the British guns.
During the first 3 days, the 21st division had taken all of its objectives and penetrated the strong enemy defensive system to a depth of 1 mile.Major S W Loudon-Shand,s VC was cited " For most conspicuous bravery.
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Early explanations, prominent in the 1920s and 1930s, stressed the official version of responsibility as ennumerated in the Treaty of Versailles and Treaty of Trianon, that Germany and her allies were solely responsible for the war.
The Serb army, which was coming up from the south of the country, met the Austrian army at the Battle of Cer on August 12, 1914.
Alternating between restricted and unrestricted submarine warfare during the First Battle of the Atlantic, they were employed by the Kaiserliche Marine in a strategy of weakening the British Empire by attacking its merchant shipping.
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 uk army recruitment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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In 1918 the British Army was actually smaller than in 1917 (3.84 million to 3.9 million) and almost half the...
THE British Army is facing a future in which it will struggle to achieve full strength for years to come, the senior officer in charge of recruitment has...
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 Palestine During WW II
The British not only refused to let the refugees continue to Palestine, they encouraged Turkish authorities to tow the ship into the Black Sea and cast it adrift, an inhuman act given that the passangers had been on board for 74 days, overcrowded with inadequate supplies.
Despite British-Jewish tensions, thousands of Jewish volunteers served in the British army in scattered units, and on September 14, 1944, the Jewish Brigade was established.
During the Second World War in Yugoslavia, many Muslim clerics in Bosnia and Kosovo were willing accomplices in the genocide of the nation's Serbian, Jewish and Roma population.
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 british army recruitment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
British Army to staff recruitment table at Manchester pride...
British army to staff recruitment table at Manchester pride festival.
A British citizen; a citizen of the British dependent territories; a British overseas citizen; a British subject under the...
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 World War I - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On September 12 the First United States Army, which had recently been organized from the American Expeditionary Force, eliminated the Saint-Mihiel salient, which the Germans had occupied since 1914.
In that treaty, Russia renounced all claims to Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (specifically, the formerly Russian-controlled Congress Poland of 1815) and Ukraine, and it was left to Germany and Austria-Hungary "to determine the future status of these territories in agreement with their population."
This was especially acute in France where a huge number of their young men were killed or injured during the conflict.
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 Wikinfo | World War I:Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mainly France, Russia), The delays from the resistance of the Belgians, French and British forces and the unexpectedly rapid mobilisation of the Russians upset the German plans, and the Central Powers were forced to fight a war on two fronts.
The armies of the First World War also used chemical warfare, which was later banned when its true effects were seen on soldiers.
The sides took set positions, the French and British seeking to take the offensive while the Germans sought to defend the territories they had occupied.
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 Short History of WW 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Siege of Kut (1915-16), the British reorganized and captured Baghdad in March 1917.
Palestine, initial British failures were overcome with Jerusalem being captured in December 1917 and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) commander, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, issued a General Order on April 11 stating "With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause each one of us must fight on to the end." However, by then, the German offensive had stalled because of logistical problems.
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 World War I : WW I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shortly thereafter he died, having been made a duke by his thankful Empire, and perhaps fortunately for him, he died before he could watch II of Germany">Wilhelm II destroy the diplomatic and military gains that he had achieved.
The specific breakdowns of the alliance system that kept Bismarck's Germany premier are almost unforgivable to II of Germany">Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Petersburg culminated in the abdication of II of Russia">Tsar Nicholas II and the appointment of a weak centrist provisional government, which shared power with the socialists of the Petrograd Soviet[?].
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 World War I
Russia attacked in East Prussia, diverting German forces intended for the Western Front, allowing French and British forces to halt the German advance on Paris at the First Battle of the Marne (September 1914) as the Central Powers (German Empire and Austria-Hungary) were forced into fighting a war on two fronts.
The German army developed new tactics involving stormtroopers, infantry trained to attack and take trenches.
On October 24 the Italian Army, with very limited American assistance, began the Vittorio Veneto offensive against Austria Hungary, which lasted until November 4.
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 ipedia.com: Recruitment to the British Army during WW I Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
By the end of the World War I almost 1 in 4 of the total male populati...
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 The Women Army Corps -- Recruitment
The expansion of the Army clerical sector was a prime example of the increasing civilian nature of many military tasks.
Since women already had established themselves as secretaries in the civilian labor force and they were believed to possess greater dexterity than men, the Army naturally looked to women to fill the expanding secretarial ranks in the military.
When the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was created in 1942, the Army set a 12,000 volunteer quota.
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 The New Yorker: Fact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The task-force members, or their locally recruited agents, secreted remote detection devices—known as sniffers—capable of sampling the atmosphere for radioactive emissions and other evidence of nuclear-enrichment programs.
In the early nineteen-eighties, a covert Army unit was set up and authorized to operate overseas with minimal oversight.
Despite the controversy surrounding Yellow Fruit, the I.S.A. was kept intact as an undercover unit by the Army.
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 The Women's Army Corps - A Commemoration of WWII Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Women's Army Corps - A Commemoration of WWII Service
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