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Title: The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history;
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson), 1836-1913 Smith, Donald Eugene, b. 1878 Seymour, Charles, 1885-1963 Shearer, Augustus Hunt, 1878-1941 Knowlton, Daniel Chauncey, 1876-
Subjects: History
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : C.A. Nichols Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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tains west and northwest forcedthe enemy to yield to superior strategy. ... I writethis after witnessing the official entry of GeneralAllenby, his staff, and the miUtary commandersof the detachments of French and Italian troops,. . . The Commander in Chief and a small staff,a guard of less than 150 all told of allied troops, aquiet ceremonial of reading the proclamation 01military law and of a meeting with the notablesof the city and the heads of the religious bodies,and the official entry was over. . . . The ceremonywas full of dignity and simplicity, though it wasalso full of meaning. It was a purely military act,with a minimum of military display, but its sig-nificance was not lost on the population, who sawin it the end of an old regime and the beginningof a new era of freedom and justice for all classesand creeds.—W. T. Massey (British official corre-spondent) Report, Dec. 11, 1917. (viii) Story oj tlie stirrender.—On the nightof Dec. 8 our troops had made such progress 10286
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(JLNEKAL ALLt.NBV, ACCO.MlANltl) UV FKtNClI. ITAUA.N ANU AMEKICAN AllAmt.>ENTERING JERUSALEM, DEC. 11, 1917 WORLD WAR, 1917 VI. Turkish Theater: cBritish Enter Jerusalem WORLD WAR, 1917 against the Turkiih intrenched positions that itwas manifest that the enemy would soon have toretire to the north and east of the city, notwith-standing that he was moving reinforcements up theJericho road in a desperate attempt to prevent thecity falMng from his possession. Our pressure wasnot relaxed for a moment, and early on the gthour Generals believed that the liberation of Jeru-salem was at hand. The people also thought thattheir deliverance was near, and prayers w^re of-fered up in almost every house that our armswould be successful. At 8 oclock in the morningthe Mayor of the city and the Chief of Police cameout under a flag of truce. The Mayor, who holdshis high civic position as a member of the Hus-sciny family, which possesses documentary proofof direct descent from Mohammed, through theP

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