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 — At the dedication of the soldiers’ cemetery, Lincoln uses 272 words to give the war a new meaning. The nation, “conceived in liberty,” is being tested and owes its dead “a new birth of freedom.” His address takes two minutes.
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— Battle of Caporetto
24 Oct-19 Nov 1917 — German-Austrian stormtroops infiltrate through fog and break the Isonzo front; a young Rommel is among them. Italy loses 300,000 prisoners and retreats 130 km to the Piave. There the remade Italian army 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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