GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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French priests of Mons drew angels on the tanks
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Claimed sightings of angels at Mons stopped the battle
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German soldiers were struck by angels overnight
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Innocent children known as angels of Mons joined the French
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Angels of Mons is one of several stories of the reputed appearance of a variety of supernatural entities which protected the British Army from defeat by the invading forces of the German Empire at the beginning of World War I during the Battle of Mons in Belgium on 23 August 1914.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st Army.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Battle of Mons was the last of four “Battles of the Frontiers” that took place over as many days on the Western Front between Allied and German forces in the opening month of World War I. The first three-at Lorraine, Ardennes and Charleroi-involved French forces under the central command of General Joseph Joffre.