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For setting “Alfred Edward Housman” A Shropshire lad to music.
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Musically butterworth was noted for his work composing “The Banks of Green Willow”.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is the event that sparks World War 1.
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Butterworth enlisted as a lieutenant with the Durham Light Infantry 13th Battalion.
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Trench warfare begins as soldiers on both sides dig in. Trench warfare was when the opposing armies conduct battle, at close range. They dug ditches in the ground and lived and fought out of them.
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The United Kingdom specifies that the North Sea is a military are, it is causing a blocking of the goods into Germany.
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The germans fire first at allied lines but their shells were filled with chlorine. The French lines almost collapsed.
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The battle of verdun was the longest battle of World War 1 and was one of the bloodiest.
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The major naval battle of the war, begins.
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George won the military cross for defending a trench at pozieres. He was mentioned in the despatches because he had 2 years of great service.
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A man with a reputation for bravery, butterworth was killed leading a raid during the Somme offensive at pozieres.
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They send it to Mexico in an effort to entice Mexico to join the war. The British intercept and decipher the coded message.
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The United States was angry by the attacks upon our ships in the atlantic, we then declared war on Germany.In November the Bolshevik Revolution caused Russia to pull out of the war.
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Congress passes a law to authorize a draft.
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The Treaty of Versailles was a peace settlement between Germany and the allied powers that offiically ended the war.
