Friday, August 21, 1914. Zapata warns about Carranza.

Emiliano Zapata wrote to Lucio Blanco: 

that this  Carranza does not inspire much confidence in me. I see in him much ambition, and an inclination to fool the people.

Blanco and staff, 1913.   Blanco was an artillery officer, and the first of the Mexican revolutionary commanders to redistribute hacienda land to peasantry.  He was murdered in Mexico's revolutionary strife in 1922.

Zapata also wrote to  Pancho Villa to warn him that Carranza's ambitions were dangerous and likely to another war.

The French fought the Germans in the Ardennes, Luxembourgian border and on the Sambre River in Belgium.

A German night attack on Dinant lead the German forces to erroneously believe that the city was full of hostile civilians.

The Germans lost two zeppelins on their first mission, making it three zeppelins lost in a row.  French cavalry actually attacked and looted one of the crashed zeppelins.

German colonials troops captured Laï from the French in what is now Chad.

Pvt. John Parr, a 17 year old reconnaissance bicyclist, became the first British soldier to be killed on the Western Front when he was killed in an encounter with German cavalry.

Albanian rebels took Vlorë.

Captain Robert Bartlett met Burt McConnell, secretary for Canadian Arctic Expedition leader Vilhjalmur Stefansson, at Point Barrow, Alaska, who exchanged information on the stranded and missing.

Boston Red Sox.

There was a solar eclipse.

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Thursday, August 20, 1914. Carranza enters Mexico City. The Germans enter Brussels.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, Álvaro Obregón, Belgium, German Army, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Prussia, Russian Army, Siege of Namur, Venustiano Carranza, World War One