Meanings Of Words From War

Archduke	Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Heir	A person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.
Austro - Hungarian	Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire in English-language sources.
Sarajevo	Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a compact city on the Miljacka River, surrounded by the Dinaric Alps.
Germany	Germany is a Western European country with a landscape of forests, rivers, mountain ranges and North Sea beaches.
Belgium	Belgium, a country in Western Europe, is known for medieval towns, Renaissance architecture and as headquarters of the European Union and NATO.
Allies	A person, group, or nation that is associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose: Canada and the United States were allies in World War II.
British empire	British Empire definition. The empire of Britain, which began in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the establishment of colonies in North America and ended in the twentieth century as dozens of nations, formerly British possessions, became independent.
Contingent	Subject to chance.
Suez canal (where)	The Suez is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.
Ottoman turks	The Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey, was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman.
Gallipoli	The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli, or The Battle of Çanakkale, was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula.
Turkey	Turkey is a nation straddling eastern Europe and western Asia with cultural connections to ancient Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
Chunuk bair	The Battle of Chunuk Bair was a World War I battle fought between the Ottoman defenders and troops of the British Empire.
Egypt	Egypt, a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates to the time of the pharaohs.
Conscription	Conscription, or drafting, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.
Battle of ramian	The Battle of Romani was the last ground attack of the Central Powers on the Suez Canal at the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the First World War.
Sinai Desert	Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is a sparsely populated desert region between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Battle of somme	The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
Conscienious objector	A person who for reasons of conscience objects to serving in the armed forces.
Messines	The Battle of Messines was an offensive conducted by the British Second Army, under the command of General Sir Herbert Plumer, on the Western Front near the village of Messines in West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War.
Casualties	A person killed or injured in a war or accident.
Pessendale	The Battle of Passchendaele was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.
Offensive	Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed.
Armistice	An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.