Christmas truce
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title:
Christmas truce
text:
The Christmas truce 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. Lulls occurred in the fighting as armies ran out of men and munitions and commanders reconsidered their strategies following the stalemate of the Race to the Sea and the indecisive result of the First Battle of Ypres. In the week leading up to 25 December, French, German and British soldiers crossed
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Ceasefires along the Western Front of WWI
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
date created:
2004-01-01T06:40:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T10:13:55Z
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