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AtomicBombSquad t1_j1cgp4p wrote

Reply to comment by ZXE102Rv2 in TIL that Henry Gunther was the last soldier to die in World War I. The war ended at 11 AM and Gunther was killed at 10:59 AM while charging a German machine gun by IAmDavidGurney

This scenario is more or less what happened with the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. The treaty to end the war was signed two weeks earlier on Christmas Eve, 1814; but, because it was signed in Europe nobody on this side of the Atlantic knew the war was over until sometime in February, 1815.

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