Allied fortunes in the Sinai campaign turned following the arrival of a new commander, and victory at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, writes Major Paul Knight.
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100 Years Ago: Battle of Beersheba opens Allied way to Palestine
Allied fortunes in the Sinai campaign turned following the arrival of a new commander, and victory at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, writes Major Paul Knight.
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31st October 1917: Allied fortunes in the Sinai campaign turned with victory under a new commander, General Sir Edmund Allenby.
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100 Years Ago: The Balfour Declaration
Britain pledged its support for the establishment of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine, in a letter written by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour on 2 November 1917.
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Article: ‘The Contested Centenary’ – Britain’s Balfour Declaration
The centenary of the British Government's First World War promise to 'establish a Jewish national home' in Palestine is being 'revisited with passion and anger', an article in The Guardian says.
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2nd November 1917: Britain pledged its support for the establishment of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine, in a letter written by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour.
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Armistice Centenary – Australia pledges $7.5m for local projects
Applications open on 11 November 2017 for a $7.5 million Australian community grants programme to mark the 2018 Centenary of the First World War Armistice.
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‘Hold High The Torch’ – CWGC global remembrance event, November 11
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission invites people to take part in a global remembrance event on Armistice Day, using digital technology to create ‘a wave of light from Sydney to London.’
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100 Years Ago: Bolsheviks seize power in the Russian Revolution
On the Centenary of the Bolshevik coup, Patrick Gregory looks back at the turmoil which propelled Lenin’s revolutionaries to power in Russia during the First World War.
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Article: ‘There was nothing inevitable about the Bolshevik revolution’
The Russian uprising of November 1917 could have been short-lived, like so many other failed revolutions of that era, Simon Sebag Montefiore writes in The New York Times.
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