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Following the comprehensive success of the Battle of Megiddo, Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) at the War Office encouraged General Allenby commanding the Egyptian Expeditionary Force with the idea that the EEF could do anything and asked him to consider a cavalry raid to Aleppo. [1]
The Battle of Aleppo may refer to: Battle of Aleppo (1918), during World War I; Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016), during the Syrian Civil War;
In December 2008, research by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin linked the presence of three specific genes (termed PA, PB1, and PB2) and a nucleoprotein derived from Spanish flu samples to the ability of the 1918 flu virus to invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. These genes were inserted into a modern H1N1 strain and triggered ...
The Battle of Aleppo (Arabic: مَعْرَكَةُ حَلَبَ, romanized: Maʿrakat Ḥalab) was a major military confrontation in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, [78] between the Syrian opposition (including the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other largely-Sunni groups, such as the Levant Front and the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front) [79 ...
Siege of Aleppo may refer to: Siege of Aleppo (637), during the Arab–Byzantine wars; Siege of Aleppo (969), during the Arab–Byzantine wars by general Peter; Siege of Aleppo (977) by Sa'd al-Dawla; Siege of Aleppo (983) by Bakjur and the Fatimid Caliphate; Siege of Aleppo (994–995) by the Fatimid Caliphate; Siege of Aleppo (1024–1025) by ...
The Aleppo bombings (April–July 2016) were intense bombardments on both rebel and government-held areas in the city of Aleppo, Syria starting in late April 2016. Some rebel shelling also hit a Kurdish-held part of the city. The bombings decreased in intensity after 55 days when a temporary truce was established. [3]
Hospitals in Aleppo were attacked multiple times. Before March 2016, more than six hospitals were attacked in the Aleppo Governorate. [9] In April 2016, over two dozen were killed when a Russian airstrike hit a hospital; [11] the hospital served as the area's primary pediatric care facility. [12] In July 2016, M2 Hospital was attacked by ...
Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. [1] One to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu-like symptoms develop. [1] These symptoms include fever, headaches, and vomiting, [1] as well as swollen and painful lymph nodes occurring in the area closest to where the bacteria entered the skin. [2]