Sunday, June 6, 1915. Switzerland approves a war tax. The Great War comes to Wyoming.

The Allies reorganized at Gallipoli and beat back an Ottoman offensive.

The French Army captured the main road leading to Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

The Swiss population overwhelmingly approved a war tax, the first time which a Swiss referendum passed in every canton.

Today In Wyoming's History: June 6: 1915  British commissioners began to purchase remounts in Wyoming.  The purchase of horses for British service in World War One created a boom in horse ranching which would continue, fueled both by British and American service purchases, throughout the war, but which would be followed by a horse ranching crash after the war.

 U.S. Army Remounts, Camp Kearney California, 1917.

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Saturday, June 5, 1915. German forces retook Przemyśl.

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