Tuesday, February 22, 1916. German advance at Verdun.

The Germans advanced to Fabas, France, in their offensive at Verdun.

The French executed Phan Xích Long following an attempted prison breakout days earlier.

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Monday, February 21, 1916. The Battle of Verdun commences.

Labels: 1910s, 1916, Albania, Battle of Verdun, boats and ships, Commercial fishing, French Army, German Army, German Kriegsmarine, Italian Navy, Personalities, Verdun France

Tuesday, February 15, 1916. Chivalry in Africa.

Allied commander Brigadier General Frederick Hugh Cunliffe sent a message to German commander Captain Ernst von Rabe at the mountain fortress near Mora in Kamerun (now modern-day Cameroon), offering terms of surrender that included all African native soldiers to be allowed safe passage back to their home villages and all German troops interned in England. 

Rabe accepted the terms with an additional offer all the native soldiers be paid for their military service.

Ottoman forces around Erzurum were evacuated.

British forces were forced off of "the Bluff" in Belgium.  The Germans, however, sustained inordinate casualties in the effort.

Followers of putative Vietnamese Emperor Phan Xích Long attempted to break him out of his prison in Saigon. They failed.

Airborne reconnaissance located the new location of the Senussis.

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Monday, February 14, 1916. Russians take Ft. Fafet, Australians mutiny, Petra Herrera murdered, Vietnamese rebel.

Labels: 1910s, 1916, 1916 Cochinchina uprising, Erzurum Offensive, Espionage, French Empire, Imperial Russian Army, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Ottoman Empire, Personalities, Saigon Vietnam, Vietnam, World War One

Monday, February 14, 1916. Russians take Ft. Fafet, Australians mutiny, Petra Herrera murdered, Vietnamese rebel.

The Russians captured Ft. Tafet.

Australian troops mutinied against conditions at Casula Camp in New South Wales.

Mexican revolutionary Petra Herrera, who fought both as a soldier and worked as a spy, was shot dead by drunken revolutionaries in a bar.

She's started off as a Villista who disguised herself as a man, and then later became an acknowledged female combatant, and later a spy.

Vietnamese rebels rose up in Saigon.

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Saturday, February 12, 1916. Russians advance against the Ottomans.

Labels: 1910s, 1916, Art, Battle of Salaita Hill, British Army, East Africa Campaign, Erzurum Offensive, Imperial Russian Army, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Kenya, Knights of Columbus, World War One, Wyoming (Casper)