Exactly 85 years ago the armistice was signed ending at the end of the Great War, the bloodiest conflict in history. |
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But they did so aggrievedly and they looked forward to armistice when they could win back what they saw as just wages and rights. |
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After landing in Normandy he served as a regimental medical officer until the armistice. |
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It asks that the repatriates be turned over to the commission after the armistice. |
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Lenin immediately asked the German High Command for an armistice, and in December both sides met to discuss peace terms at Brest-Litovsk. |
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He claims that in most respects the terms of the armistice provided the foundations of those of the peace treaty. |
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Those favouring an armistice hoped that a negative reply from Roosevelt would deprive their opponents of a valuable trump card. |
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North and South Korea remain in a state of armistice with no peace agreement signed at the end of the war. |
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The north responded to the news by threatening to abandon the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. |
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He was influential in promoting the armistice agreement for Angola and independence for East Timor from Indonesia. |
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Both sides agreed to an armistice to bury the dead and collect the wounded. |
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In September 1943, when the Italians signed an armistice, he escaped and reached safety in Switzerland. |
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News of the armistice had reached the troops but the actual order to cease fire was still on the way to the front. |
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The battle for civilisation is not going to end with an armistice or some form of negotiated settlement. |
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Hard-liners on both sides have been stepping up calls to abandon the armistice. |
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In March 1940, he led the delegation that negotiated with Molotov for an armistice and peace settlement. |
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French armies stormed to victory in Spain and Savoy, and by the end of 1794, tired of continual war, the Austrians signed an armistice. |
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Unfortunately, the war, which resulted in an armistice and not a peace treaty, was not the end of the problem. |
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For these reasons, it was hard for many to comprehend that such an armistice could ever take place. |
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Immediately after the armistice was signed an election in Paris returned a hard right government. |
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This change was occasioned by the opening of armistice talks, nominally between the opposing commanders-in-chief. |
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Such a development would end the 1953 armistice agreement and accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the peninsula. |
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After the armistice, Gabrielle returned to Paris and resumed working for the church. |
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Life along the armistice line showcases some of the worst excesses of both sides. |
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By the time the armistice was signed in 1918, a British woman aged 16-32 stood only a one-in-ten chance of marriage. |
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The fighting lasted until July 27 1953 when an armistice was signed. |
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Legal jurisdiction would go in accordance with the 1949 armistice agreement. |
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Yet, at the end, he did facilitate acceptance of the kaiser's abdication, the establishment of the Weimar Republic, and the armistice, and he remained a hero. |
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The fight for peace must be conducted unremittingly, without any possibility of armistice. |
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However, although an armistice prevailed, the country continued to be under constant threat from outside forces. |
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De Gaulle refused to accept the armistice and led the Free France resistance movement. |
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North Korea recently accused South Korea of bringing trench mortars into the Demilitarized Zone in violation of the armistice agreement, which ended the 1950-1953 Korean War. |
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Following the armistice of 1944, Finland was obliged to pay reparations of 300 million gold dollars to the USSR, mostly in ships and other metal products. |
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He says the North's pattern of provocation suggests it is holding out for a peace treaty to replace the old armistice. |
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There was never an armistice to end the last gulf war, only a ceasefire. |
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Replacing the Korean armistice agreement with a peace agreement is essential for peace and the reunification of the Korean peninsula and the peace and security of North-East Asia and beyond as a whole. |
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Whenever circumstances permit, an armistice or a suspension of fire shall be arranged, or local arrangements made, to permit the removal, exchange and transport of the wounded left on the battlefield. |
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Many initially left the city, only to return after the armistice was signed in June and Paris became the seat of the German military administration. |
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The terms of the armistice called for an immediate evacuation of German troops from occupied Belgium, France, and Luxembourg within fifteen days. |
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France and Austria agreed to an armistice immediately and the Treaty of Pressburg followed shortly after on 26 December. |
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On 19 June, Czar Alexander sent an envoy to seek an armistice with Napoleon. |
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Fighting lasted until February, when an armistice was signed that left the province in Polish hands, but technically still a German possession. |
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Wellesley had agreed to sign the preliminary armistice, but had not signed the convention, and was cleared. |
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On 3 September 1943, the Western Allies invaded the Italian mainland, following Italy's armistice with the Allies. |
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The armistice was signed three weeks later on 12 September 1944, on terms virtually dictated by the Soviet Union. |
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Two years later, Ralph Bunche, a UN official, negotiated an armistice to the resulting conflict. |
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A week later, on 28 April, the Piedmontese signed an armistice at Cherasco, withdrawing from the hostilities. |
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A several month armistice followed, during which Kray was replaced by the Archduke John, with the Austrian army retiring behind the river Inn. |
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The two forces met near Kappel, but war was averted due to the intervention of Hans Aebli, a relative of Zwingli, who pleaded for an armistice. |
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On 13 December 1918, the armistice was extended and the Allies reported that by 9 December 264,000 prisoners had been repatriated. |
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The fighting had stopped with nothing more solid than an armistice. |
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The new government led by the German Social Democrats called for and received an armistice on 11 November. |
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The Revolution of November was followed in December by an armistice and negotiations with Germany. |
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In December, the Central Powers signed an armistice with Russia, thus freeing large numbers of German troops for use in the west. |
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Both peace offers were rejected, and on 24 September Supreme Army Command informed the leaders in Berlin that armistice talks were inevitable. |
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Choiseul began in 1762 to plan a fresh invasion, but this was also abandoned when an armistice was signed. |
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The armistice was thus a time of both pleasure and of almost unbearable pain. |
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It is quite preposterous for the U. S. to urge the DPRK to disarm itself before anything else under the present situation where the two countries are in a state of armistice and technically at war. |
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Bulgaria was the first to sign an armistice, on 29 September 1918 at Saloniki. |
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The autumn will be hot, warned the trade unions, which generally respect the summer armistice and the holidays of their members before launching the movements intended to perturb as many people as possible. |
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During the Second World War, following the armistice of 22 June 1940, continental Normandy was part of the German occupied zone of France. |
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As the Allied forces advanced, Prince Maximilian of Baden was appointed as Chancellor of Germany in October to negotiate an armistice. |
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On 29 October, the imperial authorities asked Italy for an armistice, but the Italians continued advancing, reaching Trento, Udine, and Trieste. |
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Together with Gladwyn Jebb he helped to negotiate the Italian armistice in August 1943, between the fall of Sicily and the Salerno Landings. |
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However, once Germany had accepted the strict armistice terms, Haig suggested Germany be split into independent states at the peace treaty. |
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Edward held court in Dumfries at which he grudgingly agreed to an armistice. |
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Bulgaria signed an armistice with the Allies on 29 September 1918, following a successful Allied advance in Macedonia. |
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Brunswick then went on the attack, driving the French southwards and capturing Cassel before the war was halted by an armistice. |
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The government agreed to an armistice and began fresh negotiations with the French in Paris directed by the Duke of Bedford. |
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An armistice became effective on 11 November 1918 and all surviving German submarines were surrendered. |
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In December, the Bolsheviks signed an armistice with the Central Powers, though by February 1918, fighting had resumed. |
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I'm hoping that the latest crop of books marks an armistice in the religious wars, a move away from both religious intolerance and irreligious intolerance. |
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Wilson's note of November 5 apprised the Germans of these reservations and stated that Foch would communicate armistice terms to Germany's accredited representatives. |
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Following the armistice, Hackenberg shared the fate of the unconquered Maginot line: the handing over, intact, of the ouvrage to the Germans and the departure of its crew as prisoners. |
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But the EU summit in Ypres will also struggle to strike an armistice, with David Cameron and Angela Merkel, who are locking horns over the vexed question of Jean-Claude Juncker. |
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When the armistice ended, the Americans attempted an attack across the Niagara River on October 13, but suffered a crushing defeat at Queenston Heights. |
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The Germans were so convinced of an imminent armistice that they began constructing street decorations for the homecoming parades of victorious troops. |
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German commanders met with French officials on 18 June with the goal of forcing the new French government to accept an armistice that amounted to surrender. |
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The blockade was maintained during the eight months after the armistice was agreed to force Germany to end the war and sign the Treaty of Versailles. |
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The French were too exhausted to pursue the Austrians immediately, but Napoleon eventually caught up with Charles at Znaim and the latter signed an armistice on 12 July. |
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When the armistice ended, John advanced over the Inn towards Munich. |
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When Bulgaria signed a separate armistice on 29 September, Ludendorff, having been under great stress for months, suffered something similar to a breakdown. |
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On 29 October, the imperial authorities asked Italy for an armistice. |
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It called for an immediate ceasefire, the withdrawal of all forces behind the armistice lines, an arms embargo, and the reopening of the Suez Canal, which was now blocked. |
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After the Italian armistice in September 1943, Italian and Free French Forces pushed the Germans out of the island, making Corsica the first French Department to be freed. |
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This new government was invited by the Emperor to take part in the decision on the planned armistice with Italy, but refrained from this business. |
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