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THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 19

November 19 in history

1863 — The 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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1917 — 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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1942

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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