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Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. -- Sun Tzu |
Erich von Falkenhayn(188 total words in this text)(2474 Reads)  Falkenhayn was appointed Prussian war minister in 1913 and succeeded Hermuth von Moltke as Chief of General Staff in September 1914. Falkenhayn disagreed with General Paul von Hindenburg and Eric von Ludendorff about concentrating German efforts to defeat Russia. Instead he believed the war would be won in the west and concentrated all available forces against France and Britain. The German Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, was highly critical of Falkenhayn's inability to achieve victory on the Western Front. Falkenhayn lost his post as Chief of General Staff to Paul von Hindenburg after the failure to capture Verdun in August 1916. Falkenhayn was transferred to Palestine in July 1917. After being beaten several times by General Edmund Allenby in Palestine, Falkenhayn was replaced by General Liman von Sanders. His last command before retirement was in 1918 with the German Tenth Army in Lithuania. Erich von Falkenhayn died in 1922. |
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
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. |
