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Baron von de Goltz(151 total words in this text)(2197 Reads)  After the successful invasion of Belgium in August 1914, Goltz became military governor of the country. In December, 1914, Goltz was transferred to Constantinople where he became a military adviser to the Turkish government. After a power struggle, in March 1915,Goltz replaced Liman von Sanders as commander of the Bosporous Army. His plans for a major attack on the British in Egypt and India were rejected. In October 1915 Goltz was given the command of the Sixth Army on the Mesopotamian Front. Baron von der Goltz supervised the siege of Kut but died a few days before the garrison's surrender in April 1916. |
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1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |
