The Central Powers took Debar, Serbia, ending the Kosovo Offensive and effectively eliminating the Serbian army
The original war aim, now hopelessly lost, was achieved.
The Pan American International Exposition closed.
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Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Sunday, December 4, 1910. Contesting forces in Mexico negotiate.
A peace commission in Chihuahua, Mexico attempted to broker a truce between the Diaz government and the "Maderistas" who supported Francisco I. Madero.
Cynthia Ann Parker, captured by the Comanche as a child and then recaptured by the Texas Rangers unwillingly as an adult, was reinterred in Oklahoma. She had passed away in 1870.
She was the mother of Quanah Parker.
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Saturday, December 3, 1910. Neon.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Friday, December 3, 1915. Mexican border situation serious.
The Casper paper termed the situation on the border "serious".
The retreating British Indian Army arrived at Kut, Iraq.
The British reinforced Matruh, Egypt, to guard against the Senussis.
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Thursday, December 2, 1915. A Villa massacre.
Saturday, December 3, 1910. Neon.
Neon lighting was introduced at the Paris Motor Show, but not, of course, for automobiles.
It was a Saturday.
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Thursday, December 1, 1910. Diaz inaugurated. . . again. Taft introduced to society.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, Coyotes, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Personalities, Porfirio Díaz, Taft, Wyoming
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Thursday, December 2, 1915. A Villa massacre.
Pancho Villa ordered a mass execution of the male residents of San Pedro de la Cueva, blaming the town for the deaths of five of his troops, He originally was going to have everyone in the small town executed, but an officer in his forces convinced him to spare the women and children. Villa personally shot the village priest who urged Villa to spare the town.
The village was principally an Indian one, although a few foreigners and a few Chinese residents were amongst the victims. Seven men survived having been left for dead.
The press reported that Villa lost support of his Yaquis, and that Carranza had ended military control of the railroads.
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Tuesday, November 30, 1915. Carranza on the International Bridge.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, Arizona (Flagstaff), Canadian Army, cavalry, Mexico, Personalities, Texas (Brownsville), United States, Venustiano Carranza, Weapons, Woodrow Wilson, World War One
Monday, December 1, 2025
Thursday, December 1, 1910. Diaz inaugurated. . . again. Taft introduced to society.
Porfirio Diaz was inaugurated for his eighth term as President of Mexico. His status in that role was already disputed. His refusal to know when to go had already started a revolution, although at this moment, it was small.
Diaz might actually be remembered as a great leader of Mexico, in spite of his anti democratic tendencies, had he stepped down in 1910.
19 year old Helen Taft, the daughter of President Taft and his wife Nellie, had her debutante ball at the White House.
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Miss Taft in 1908.
She was a historian and academic, and had an extraordinarily successful career. Her focus was history, and she obtained a doctorate from Yale.
Today In Wyoming's History: December 1: 1910 A bounty on coyotes in the amount of $1.25, a not unsubstantial amount at the time, established. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
Tuesday, November 30, 1915. Carranza on the International Bridge.
Venustiano Carranza met Col. Augustus P. Blocksom on the International Bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville. People were smiling, but all was not well.
Blocksom had been in the Army since 1877. He was a cavalryman and would rise to the rank of Maj. General during World War One, although he would serve in the Great War as a training officer, completing his service as the commander of the Army in the Pacific. His career had been very distinguished. He retired in 1918, and died in 1931 at age 76.
Blocksom i n1918, with the stress of the war, even stateside, very clearly showing on him.
Woodrow Wilson created the Walnut Canyon National Monument near Flagstaff, Arizona.
And for the last day of November:
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Sunday, November 28, 1915. Going after Zapata.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Tuesday, November 29, 1910. Race to the Antarctic.
The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott, departed from New Zealand on the Terra Nova while Roald Amundsen, on board the Fram was also en route to the Antarctic and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, led by Nobu Shirase, departed Tokyo on the ship Kainan Maru.
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Wednesday, November 23, 1910. Provisional President of Mexico.
Friday, November 28, 2025
Sunday, November 28, 1915. Going after Zapata.
The Constitutionalist government in Mexico City announced a plan to bring about victory over Zapata.
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Saturday, November 27, 1915. Casper's Fr. McGee passes.
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Saturday, November 27, 1915. Casper's Fr. McGee passes.
It was a Saturday.
An illustration by James Montgomery Flagg graced the cover of the comedic Judge, making sport of November weather, and sports.
The Saturday Evening Post just went with an illustration of contemporary beauty.
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Country Gentleman had an illustration of a white turkey, but I can't find a good image of it to post.
The British government introduced legislation to restrict housing rents to their pre Great War levels following Glasgow rent strikes.
A second KKK chapter was established in Stone Mountain, Georgia, showing the rapid growth of the racist organization. Of note, a newspaper in Colorado that was black owned and operated campaigned on this day for keeping Birth of a Nation out of Colorado.
In Casper, a tragedy struck the local Catholic community with the death of Fr. McGee, who was just 27 years old.
The local paper also reported that troops were headed to the border in light of the Second Battle of Nogales having just occured.
A rather grim photograph was taken of French soldiers gathering up battlefield dead, French and German.
Weather at Gallipoli continued to be bad.
The Great Blizzard at Gallipoli
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Friday, November 26, 1915. Battle of Nogales.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Friday, November 26, 1915. Battle of Nogales.
Villista's commenced firing on U.S. troops across the border in Nogales, Arizona, from Nogales, Sonora. The 12th Infantry responded with counter fire in an engagement that lasted over two hours until Constitutionalistas troops arrived and attacked the Villistas.
The attack followed a series of cross border raids by unknown, but probably Villistas, forces. The day prior Mascarena's Ranch had bee raided in such an event.
Villa's troops had been attempting to withdraw from Nogales but had their efforts frustrated with Obregon's troops captured a troop train they were using. The Villista firing into Nogales started after that. Some U.S. forces crossed into Mexico during the fight, prior ro the arrival of Obregon's troops. Later in the day, the 10th Cavalry engaged in a 30 minute firefight with the Constitutionalistas.
Bad weather set in at Gallipoli, adding to the misery and to Allied casualties.
Other news of the day:
Martin Mine, Benton, Wis., November 25, 1915.
Cleveland Mine, Hazel Green, Wis, November 26, 1915.
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Thursday, November 25, 1915. Retreat of the Serbs and General Relativity.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Thursday, November 25, 1915. Retreat of the Serbs and General Relativity.
It was Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.
It apparently was a tense one on the the border.
Serbian Field Marshal Radomir Putnik ordered a retreat of Serbian forces military through Albania and Montenegro. 155,000 Serbian soldiers and civilians to escape to the Adriatic Sea, but an estimated 200,000 more died of exposure, starvation and attacks by enemy soldiers and local Albanian militia.
Parliament passed an act to restrict rent and mortgage rate increases during the ongoing war.
Albert Einstein submitted his paper 'The Field Equations of Gravitation' for publication in 1915, which gave the correct field equations for the theory of general relativity. German mathematician David Hilbert had submitted an article containing the correct field equations for general relativity five days before.
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Wednesday, November 24, 1915. Withdrawals at Ctesiphon.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1920s, 1922, 1925, Battle of Ctesiphon, British Army, Bulgarian Army, Kosovo Offensive, Ku Klux Klan, Movies, Ottoman Army, Personalities, Racism
Monday, November 24, 2025
Wednesday, November 24, 1915. Withdrawals at Ctesiphon.
Both sides withdrew in the Battle of Ctesiphon.
Pristina fell to the Bulgarians.
William Joseph Simmons, inspired Birth of a Nation, founded the second variant of the Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia. The event included the burning of a cross, something the original Klan did not do, but which the film had depicted.
Simmons would run the organization until 1922, at which point he'd be removed from power The organization reached its peak membership in 1925, and declined thereafter due to scandal.
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Tuesday, November 23, 1915. Turned back at Ctesiphon.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Tuesday, November 23, 1915. Turned back at Ctesiphon.
British forces failed to break through Ottoman lines at Ctesiphon.
Sikh troops were deployed by the British to Matruah in response to Senussi attacks.
German and Bulgarian troops in the battle for Pristina on November 23, 1915.
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Monday, November 22, 1915. British turned back in Mesopotamia.
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