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Re: Quarterman Dates




>I believe the info about Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdicating on Nov. 8, 1918, is 
>incorrect.  And at the time Germany was not admitting defeat.  It was an 
>armistice, not a surrender.  On the evening of Nov. 10, the Kaiser ordered 
>his personal train behind the front lines to be driven into neutral Holland 
>without abdicating at that time, thus throwing Germany into confusion.

Hm, good points.  And I didn't record a source for the present entry,
so I can't check it.

Do you have a good source for these events that I could cite?

>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.

John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org>
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