{"id":40699,"date":"2017-11-03T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40699"},"modified":"2025-11-08T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:12:34","slug":"battle-of-beersheba-canadian-frustration-balfour-declaration-i-the-great-war-week-171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/03\/battle-of-beersheba-canadian-frustration-balfour-declaration-i-the-great-war-week-171\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Beersheba &#8211; Canadian Frustration &#8211; Balfour Declaration I THE GREAT WAR Week 171"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Qs6rp3Z7Og\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 2 Nov 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the Western Front this week, the Canadians under Sir Arthur Currie attempt to advance once more, whilst Haig remains optimistic about an imminent breakthrough. Following Caporetto, the Italian retreat continues, whilst the British Army enjoys success on the Palestine Front, with a little help from mounted ANZAC troops. With Lenin\u2019s return, the revolution looms over the Russian capital, whilst the Balfour Declaration is issued in Britain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great War Published on 2 Nov 2017 On the Western Front this week, the Canadians under Sir Arthur Currie attempt to advance once more, whilst Haig remains optimistic about an imminent breakthrough. Following Caporetto, the Italian retreat continues, whilst the British Army enjoys success on the Palestine Front, with a little help from mounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62,7,339,370,5,1119,246],"tags":[1607,955,292,1145,506,1112],"class_list":["post-40699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-europe","category-history","category-italy","category-middle-east","category-military","category-russia","category-ww1","tag-arthurcurrie","tag-canadiancorps","tag-palestine","tag-passchendaele","tag-revolution","tag-thegreatwar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aAr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40700,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40699\/revisions\/40700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}