World War I History
1917 - In Hazebrouck, Belgium, Winston Churchill attended a lecture on the Battle of Loos given Colonel Tom Holland.
| "The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit." - President Woodrow Wilson |
