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    WE WILL REMEMBER

    Apr 18, 2021 2 minutes
    Reporting by Jude Dobson

    For most of World War I, the 3000 citizens of Le Quesnoy were prisoners within the high walls of their fortified town in Northern France. The German army occupied the town until New Zealand soldiers embarked on a mission, on November 4, 1918, to liberate the locals and capture the enemy.

    Shelling the town was ruled out because of the certain casualties

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