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The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.It was the most significant uprising in ...
4 days ago · Summarize this Article The Western Front, 1916. In 1914 the centre of gravity of World War I had been on the Western Front, in 1915 it shifted to the Eastern, and in 1916 it once more moved back to France.Though the western Allies had dissipated some of their strength in the Dardanelles, Salonika, and Mesopotamia, the rising tide of Britain’s new armies and of its increased munition supplies ...
Articles About 1916. Gallipoli: Guts, Glory and Defeat The horrors of the First World War are encapsulated in the enduring names of its famous terrible battles, such as the Somme, Paschendale . . . and Gallipoli.
May 22, 2024 · The uprising was planned to be nationwide in scope, but a series of mishaps led to its being confined to Dublin alone. The British had learned of the planned uprising and on April 21 arrested Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement in County Kerry for running arms for the rebels. Eoin MacNeill, the leader of the Irish Volunteers, therefore canceled mobilization orders for the insurgents, but ...
Mar 20, 2015 · Two Irish events of 1916 – the separatist Easter Rising and the unionist Ulster Division’s experience at the the Battle of the Somme – have become sanctified in their respective Irish ...
4 days ago · World War I was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties (in Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey), resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.. The last surviving veterans of World War I were American serviceman Frank ...
Nov 9, 2009 · On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a group of Irish nationalists proclaimed the establishment of the Irish Republic and, along with some 1,600 followers, staged a rebellion against the British ...
New York Tribune, June 11, 1916, [1]. June 4. General Brusiloff's offensive. June 5. Lord Kitchener lost at sea. June 14. Allied Economic Conference in Paris. June 21. Mecca taken by Grand Sherif. July 1. Somme battle begun. July 25. Russians occupied Erzinjan. Aug. 6. Italian offensive on Isonzo. Aug. 9. Gorizia taken by Italians.
Mar 23, 2016 · The years leading up to the rebellion against British rule in Ireland in April 1916 were marked by significant political, cultural and military developments in Ireland and throughout Europe.
