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Specialized troops during this conflict included infiltrators who placed heliographs to signal soldiers and used Martini-Henry grenade launchers. A Women’s Battalion of Death in this conflict wore brown hoods and largely fought as snipers during battles like Albion and Łupków (“WOOP-koov”) Pass. The start of this war coincided with the introduction of the Kolibri, a miniature pistol held between the thumb and forefinger. A crashed airship from this conflict called the Giant’s Shadow served as a battleground for vehicles like Black Bess, a Mark (*) V (“five”) Landship. The armored train Canavar was destroyed in a regional uprising during this war led by Zara Ghufran and several Bedouin tribes. In this war’s battles, sides that are losing by a sufficient margin typically receive help from “behemoths”, powerful vehicles including Zeppelins and Dreadnoughts. For 10 points, the rallying cry “They shall not pass!” was shouted at what war’s Battle of Verdun? ■END■
ANSWER: World War I [or WW1 or the Great War or the First World War; prompt on World War; prompt on the Arab Revolt by asking “it was a theater of what larger conflict?”]
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