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  • France
    Dec, 1914
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle mental adjutant

    France
    Dec, 1914

    In December he became regimental adjutant.




  • Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    Thursday Dec 24, 1914
    Armenian Genocide

    Minister of War Enver Pasha implemented a plan to encircle and destroy the Russian Caucasus Army

    Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    Thursday Dec 24, 1914

    On 24 December 1914, Minister of War Enver Pasha implemented a plan to encircle and destroy the Russian Caucasus Army at Sarikamish in order to regain territories lost to Russia after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Enver Pasha's forces were routed in the battle, and almost completely destroyed. Returning to Constantinople, Enver Pasha publicly blamed his defeat on Armenians in the region having actively sided with the Russians.




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