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World War I History
World War I History
1916 - In Bruges, Belgium, German officials executed British steamship Captain Charles Fryatt. A German court martial had found him guilty of attacking a German submarine on March 28.
| "We stand at the turning point of the war: what I expected first for the autumn, the necessity to go over to the defensive, is already on us, and in addition all the gains which we made in the spring--such as they were--have been lost again." - Crown Prince Rupprecht, July 20, 1918 |
