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Re: Quarterman Dates
OK, added.
John
>See Marshall Dill, Jr., Germany, A Modern History, Univ. of Michigan Press,
>Ann Harbor, 1970, pp. 248-9. The Kaiser was given an ultimatum to abdicate
>on Nov. 8, 1918. He replied he might resign as Emperor but remain as King of
>Prussia, who appointed enough seats in the upper house to block any amendment
>to the Constitution. There was an uprising in Berlin. On his own a leader
>in Berlin announced the Kaiser had abdicated. On the night before the end of
>the war the Kaiser fled to Holland and had the protection of the Dutch queen.
> "It was not until almost three weeks later that he drew up an act of
>abdication."
>Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Carlton (Carleton),
>Luker, Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Maverick, Richey (Ritchie,
>Richie, Ritchey), Spence, Sumner, Way, and Wells families.
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