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The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël; Dutch: Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914. The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun.
List of Canadian battles during the First World War on the Western Front plaque in Currie Hall, Royal Military College of Canada. The Western Front comprised the fractious borders between France, Germany, and the neighboring countries. It was infamous for the nature of the fight that developed there; after almost a full year of inconclusive ...
In many sectors along the Western Front during World War I, troops spontaneously stopped fighting at Christmas and enjoyed a brief but welcome respite from the horrors of war. Such moments of ...
Western Front; Part of the European theatre of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker ...
Battle of Savy-Dallon; First Battle of the Scarpe; Second Battle of the Scarpe; Third Battle of the Scarpe; Battle of the Scarpe (1918) Second Battle of Mons; Battle of Seicheprey; Battle of the Selle; Battle of the Serre; Battle of Soissons (1918) Battle of the Somme order of battle; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Somme ...
The Battle of Amiens was a significant turning point in the tempo of the war. The Germans had started the war with the Schlieffen Plan before the Race to the Sea slowed movement on the Western Front, and the war devolved into trench warfare. The German spring offensive earlier in 1918 had once again given Germany the offensive edge on the ...
The Battle of the Frontiers was in France and Belgium from 4 to 6 August. [16] The Battle of Tannenberg was in Germany from 26 to 30 August. [17] The First Battle of the Marne was in France from 6 to 12 September. [18] The First Battle of Ypres was in Belgium from 19 October to 22 November. [19] The Christmas truce was from 24 to 25 December. [20]
From 17 September to 17 October 1914, the belligerents had made reciprocal attempts to turn the northern flank of their opponent. Joffre ordered the French Second Army to move to the north of the French Sixth Army, by moving from eastern France from 2 to 9 September and Falkenhayn ordered the German 6th Army to move from the German-French border to the northern flank on 17 September.