Campaigners are urgently appealing for support to save the last surviving American battleship of both world wars from the scrapyard, reports Patrick Gregory.
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100 Years Ago: Jerusalem falls to British-led forces
General Sir Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on 11 December 1917 after a six-week campaign against the Ottomans in Palestine, as Major Paul Knight explains.
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How 1918 unfolded – Year of Decision in the Great War
Centenary News considers how years of deadlock came to an end in 1918, as first the Germans and then the Allies went on the attack.
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100 Years Ago: Woodrow Wilson sets out his Fourteen Points
Patrick Gregory discusses US President Woodrow Wilson’s vision, outlined in a speech to Congress on 8 January 1918, for a new world order after the Great War,
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The Americans who served with Allied forces through WW1
Author Chris Dickon explains how many American volunteers were already Great War veterans in 1918 as the US built up its own army for action in Europe.
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100 Years Ago: ‘In Flanders Fields’ poet John McCrae dies
The Canadian doctor, soldier and poet who wrote In Flanders Fields died in France on 28 January 1918. Author Chris Dickon reflects on John McCrae’s life and legacy.
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100 Years Ago: Troopship Tuscania sunk carrying US soldiers
The liner Tuscania was torpedoed on 5 February 1918 near the end of a voyage bringing 2,000 US troops to Europe – as Patrick Gregory explains.
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100 Years Ago: Flu emerges as new enemy
As an unusually deadly outbreak of influenza confronted the Great War armies, US WWI historian James Taub considers its impact on American forces.
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The Defence of Givenchy – holding the German Spring Offensive, April 1918
Major Paul Knight describes how British troops of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division held the line against a German push towards the Channel ports 100 years ago.
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Seicheprey – America’s WWI Baptism of Fire
On the Centennial of America’s first significant clash of the Great War, Patrick Gregory tells the story of the encounter at Seicheprey, on 20 April 1918.
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