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    Corps took Ortelsburg, while I and XV Corps advanced onto Soldau and Neidenburg. On 22 August, Samsonov ordered XV Corps to advance towards Hohenstein...
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    Namur, informed Pope Benedict XV of the situation, leading to widespread outrage among the global population. In response, a group of 93 German intellectuals...
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    The two sides regrouped and on 4 September fought the Battle of Grand Couronné when the Germans tried to capture Nancy. The Bavarians had to abandon their...
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    l'Oie were to be captured in a 1.9 mi (3 km) advance. On the right (east) bank, XV Corps and XXXII Corps were to advance a similar distance and take Côte...
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     xv; Sheffield 2011, pp. 194, 197; Harris 2009, p. 271; Philpott 2009, pp. 602–603. Philpott 2009, p. 438; Clodfelter 2017, pp. 398. Lewis, Jon E. A Brief...
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    armies to conduct holding attacks while a new force, Armeegruppe Fabeck (General Max von Fabeck) was assembled from XV Corps and the II Bavarian Corps, the...
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    representative to the Vatican, and Pope Benedict XV recognized Ukrainian independence, but Ukraine was effectively ignored. A delegation of the Belarusian Democratic...
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    Treaty of Lausanne (French: Traité de Lausanne, Turkish: Lozan Antlaşması) is a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–23 and signed...
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    France–United Kingdom relations (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Beaminster, Dorset and Saint-James, Manche Beccles, Suffolk and Petit-Couronne, Seine-Maritime Birmingham, West Midlands and Lyon, Metropolitan Lyon Blandford...
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    by a local court. In remarks made during a weekly Angelus address, Pope Francis appealed for a rejection of a "culture of war", quoting Benedict XV, who...
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