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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.
He was the first Christian in many centuries to control Jerusalem, a city held holy by three great religions. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Lloyd George, described the capture as "a Christmas present for the British people." The battle was a great morale boost for the British Empire. [6]
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 ...
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 ...
For a time, the religious faithful coming to America did not celebrate Christmas at all, wanting to separate themselves from Britain and show reverence to the Bible by not celebrating on Dec. 25.
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 ...
On 22 April 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans (violating the Hague Convention) used chlorine gas for the first time on the Western Front. Several types of gas soon became widely used by both sides and though it never proved a decisive, battle-winning weapon, it became one of the most feared and best-remembered horrors of the war.
Battle of Amiens (1918) Battle of the Ancre; Battle of the Ancre (1918) Operations on the Ancre, January–March 1917; Siege of Antwerp (1914) Battle of the Ardennes; Battle of Arleux; Battle of Armentières; Battle of Arras (1918) Battle of Arras (1914) Battle of Arras (1915) Battle of Arras (1917) First Battle of Artois; Second Battle of Artois