The German U-boat campaign crossed into infamy with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
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Showing posts with label 1915. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Monday, May 5, 2025
Wednesday, May 5, 1915. The Germans broke through and took 140,000 Russian soldiers in the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive.
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Monday, May 3, 1915. In Flanders Fields.
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of the Canadian Army, whom a great aunt of mine served with, wrote In Flanders Fields.
Italy officially left the Triple Alliance.
Russian forces retreated from Gorlice.
Australian, New Zealand and British forces withdrew from Baby 700, a hill at Gallipoli after sustaining 1,000 casualties.
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Friday, April 30, 1915. Events on either side of Turkey.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Friday, April 30, 1915. Events on either side of Turkey.
The Royal Navy Division landed at Gallipoli.
15,000 Armenian refugees were allowed into Van on the thesis that it would strain the city's food supply.
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Thursday, April 29, 1915. Things in Africa and Arabia.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, British Empire, German Empire, German Kriegsmarine, Italian Army, Italian Empire, Italy, Libya, World War One
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Thursday, April 29, 1915. Things in Africa and Arabia.
Senussi rebels defeated a force of Italians at Gasr Bu Hadi, Libya.
Italy was not yet a combatant in the Great War.
A small force of British colonial troops defeated a much larger German force at a fort in British Nigeria.
Survivors of the SMS Emden arrived in Al Wajh on the Red Sea where they'd connect with the Hejez railway.
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Tuesday, April 27, 1915. Advance at Gallipoli.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, Austro Hungarian Navy, boats and ships, French Navy, Gallipoli, Mormon, religion, The family, Turkey
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Tuesday, April 27, 1915. Advance at Gallipoli.
Allied forces advanced two miles at Gallipoli.
The French cruiser Léon Gambetta was sunk in the Mediterranean off Santa Maria di Leuca, Apulia, Italy by Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-4 with the loss of 684 of her 821 crew.,
The captain of the submarine was Georg von Trapp of what would become the Von Trapp Family Singers.
The Mormon (LDS) Church established the practice of Family Home Evening. Apparently the night is now on any convenient day, but most Mormons continue to use Monday as the day.
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Monday, April 26, 1915. Leaving one Triple and joining another. French remounts travel through Laramie.
Labels: Battle of Trekkopjes, Canadian Army, Diplomacy, Equine Transportation, French Army, German South West Africa, Italy, The Second Battle of Ypres, Treaty of London, Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, World War One
Friday, April 25, 2025
Sunday, April 15, 1915. Gallipoli.
The ill fated Allied landing began at Gallipoli with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing at what became known as Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles.
Ottoman resistance was immediate.
Canadian forces failed to retake St. Julien.
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Saturday, April 24, 1915. The beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Saturday, April 24, 1915. The beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
The Armenian Genocide began with the deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople.
It's always easiest for the oppressor to remove those whom they'd like to repress. . .
The Germans launched a gas attack on Canadian positions at St. Julien, which allowed them to take the village.
The RMS Lusitania arrived in New York City coincident with the German embassy in Washington D.C. issuing a public warning that the waters around Great Britain being a war zone and that ships flying a British flag would be considered targets.
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Thursday, April 22, 1915. Gas!
Labels: 1910s, 1915, Canadian Army, French Army, German Army, technology, Technology is ruining everything, The Second Battle of Ypres, Weapons, World War One
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Thursday, April 22, 1915. Gas!
The Germans used gas in scale for the first time at Ypres. The Allies sustained mass casualties, but Canadians, improvising protection with urine soaked rags, held their ground.
The First German Gas Attack at Ypres by William Roberts
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Wednesday, April 21, 1915.
Monday, April 21, 2025
Wednesday, April 21, 1915.
Massive German Artillery barrages made the terrain of Hill 60 the classic pothole terrain of No Man's Land.
Anthony Quinn was born in Chihuahua. The great actor was raised in El Paso, Texas and East Los Angeles.
Prior to being an actor, he was a boxer and then an architect.
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Tuesday, April 20, 1915. Conditions worsen at Van. US aircraft shot at for the first time.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Tuesday, April 20, 1915. Conditions worsen at Van. US aircraft shot at for the first time.
Ottoman forces laid siege to Van as tension there grew worse.
German forces attacked Hill 60 after bombarding British defenses during the day.
A U.S. aircrew and aircraft came under fire for the very first time when Mexican forces fired on a Martin biplane flying aerial reconnaissance on the U.S. border.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad went into bankruptcy.
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Monday, April 19, 1915. Failing to retake the high ground.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Monday, April 19, 1915. Failing to retake the high ground.
German forces tried to take back Hartmannswillerkopf unsuccessfully.
The Ottomans cracked down on Armenians violently at Van.
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Thursday, April 15, 1915. No mercy for the captured.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Thursday, April 15, 1915. No mercy for the captured.
Villa retreated from the south central Mexican city of Celaya having lost 9,000 men, including 120 officers who were captured and executed.
The Imperial Russian Army defeated the Ottomans at Dilman in what is now Iran.
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Wednesday, April 14, 1915. The British secure Basra.
Monday, April 14, 2025
Wednesday, April 14, 1915. The British secure Basra.
Ottoman infantry surrendered at Basra. The British would control the port city for the remainder of the war.
Zeppelins of the German Navy bombed England resulting in two casualties.
The Armenian Druzhina seized the lake side city of Van, Turkey.
Ernest Shackleton wrote in his log that the Endurance was at risk of being "crushed like an eggshell" by the piling mass of ice.
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Tuesday, April 13, 1915. Even matches.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Tuesday, April 13, 1915. Even matches.
Pancho Villa attempted a second assault on Celaya, this one nearly succeeding, with Obregón's forces being saved by the timely arrival of an ammunition train on the following day.
Meanwhile, Huerta was looking at the situation and weighting on jumping back in.
A night attack by Ottoman troops was repelled by the British at the Battle of Shaiba, with Arab irregulars routed the following day, massively depleting the Ottoman forces.
Joe Jeannette beat Sam Langford in a twelve round heavyweight match.
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Sunday, April 11, 1915. The Tramp.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1915 at the Movies, British Army, Indian Army, Iraq, Movies, Ottoman Army, World War One
Monday, December 16, 2024
Tuesday, December 16, 1924. Looking back.
The Spanish confiscation (Desamortización española) law, authorizing the government of Spain to steal the property and lands of the Catholic Church, a popular enlightenment and Reformation despoliation that happened in many places, was repealed.
The barbarity had been in place since 1766.
Amongst other things, the law resulted in millions of acres of forest falling into private hands, being deforested, with the cost of reforestation exceeding the value of their sales. The confiscations of the 19th Century were one of the biggest environmental disasters in Iberian history.
The Supreme Court of Hungary confiscated the property of former president Mihály Károlyi for high treason. He had been convicted of negotiating with Italy in 1915 to keep the Italians out of World War One in exchange for Austrian territory, and for allowing a communist revolution to happen in 1919 by deserting his position.
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Friday, December 13, 2024
Wednesday, December 13, 1899. British victory in the Cape Colony.
General French routed Boer troops advancing into the Cape Colony toward Noupoort.
French would go on to be the commander of the BEF in 1914 and 1915. He died of bladder cancer at age 72 in 1925.
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Monday, December 11, 1899. The Battle of Magersfontein.
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