THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 19
November 19 in history
What happened on November 19: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1863, 1917 and 1942, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Gettysburg Address
19 Nov 1863 — Dedicating the soldiers’ cemetery, Lincoln reframes the war in 272 words: a nation “conceived in liberty,” now tested, and owed “a new birth of freedom.” The war’s meaning, fixed in two minutes.
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— Battle of Caporetto
24 Oct-19 Nov 1917 — German-Austrian stormtroops (a young Rommel among them) infiltrate through fog and collapse the Isonzo front: Italy loses 300,000 prisoners and falls back 130 km to the Piave — where, remade, it holds.
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Operation Uranus: Soviet pincers smash the flanks at Stalingrad and snap shut behind the Sixth Army. The war has a hinge.
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