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Catching up on the week's historical anniversaries:

11 December 1917: British General Allenby enters #Jerusalem (Collier's New Photographic History of the World War)

The Damascus Gate #WWI #Palestine
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one of the iconic gates to the Old City (walls and towers with spiky crenellated tops, built by Suleiman the Magnificent in the early modern era). Arched spaces to right, tented/awninged space to left, various pedestrians in center DAMASCUS GATE, JERUSALEM “When it became evident that the British would take Jerusalem, the German General Falkenhayn, who had been German Chief of Staff before Von Hindenburg, withdrew. The British army proceeded to the further conquest of Palestine "
#palestine #Jerusalem #wwi
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