Friday, August 6, 1915. Attack of the Dead Men.

Border raiders attacked Sebastian, Texas, killing former lawman A. L. Austin and his son Charles.  He was likely specifically targeted by the raiders due to his history of himself targeting Mexican-Americans during his days as a lawman.

Vladimir Karpovich Kotlinsky (Влади́мир Ка́рпович Котли́нский), the Lieutenant in charge of the Russian attack.

German troops launched a chlorine gas bombardment on the Russian garrison of Osowiec Fortress.  Russians traumatized by gas launched a heroic successful counterattack, called the Attack of the Dead men due to their appearance.

The British landed reinforcements at Suvla as part of a new offensive at Gallipoli.  The British launched a diversionary attack at Krithia Vineyard as part of this.  Australians attacked Lone Pine, ANZACs at Sari Bair.

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Thursday, August 5, 1915. Leaving Warsaw.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Eastern Front, German Army, Imperial Russian Army, panoramic, Poland, The Great Retreat, Warsaw Poland, World War One

Tuesday, August 3, 1915. Aniceto Pizaña.

Texas Rangers, sheriff's deputies and Federal troops engaged in a shootout with Mexican American Texas rancher, a Floresmagonista,  who had been accused by a neighboring rancher of supporting border raiders.  Pizana shot his way out of the siege and fled to Mexico and became a revolutionary. Therefore, whatever the merits of the accusations may have been, the raid actually pushed him into radicalization.

The Polish Legion beat the Russians at the Battle of Jastków.

The Italians halted at Isonzo.

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Monday, August 2, 1915. Garza reenters Mexico City.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico City, Pablo Gonzáles Garza, United States, Venustiano Carranza

Thursday, July 29, 1915. Bandits, Rebels, and would be Rebels.

Mexican national Adolfo Munoz, a resident of Cameron County, Texas, was arrested in San Benito Texas for plotting to rob a bank and for having connections with Mexican rebels.

The next day he was killed by some sort of masked mob. The identify of his killers has never been determined and they may have been local racists, or Mexican rebels.

Irish Republicans, led by Patrick Pearse, took over the Gaelic League at its Dundalk.

Honus Wagner became the oldest player in the 20th Century to hit a grand slam. 

French political cartoon from this day.

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Wednesday, July 28, 1915. Occupying Haiti. Occupying Haiti.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1930s, 1934, American Occupation of Haiti, boats and ships, German Kriegsmarine, Haiti, Labor unrest, Unions

Sunday, July 25, 1915. The Bandit War.

Mexican raiders burned a railway bridge belonging to St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.  In response, Governor James E. Ferguson to ordered a unit of Texas Rangers to assist local law in keeping order in the area.

The Bandit War was a result of the instability of Mexico, then fighting the Mexican Revolution.

Italian forces occupied the Cappuccio Wood.

Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, age 56, French socialite, mode John Singer Sargent's painting Portrait of Madame X, passed away.  The painting was originally regarded as scandalous, as in its original version, one of her dress straps had fallen away.   The controversy caused Sargant to relocate from France to the United Kingdom.

It was his favorite painting.

Harvesting was ongoing in the Midwest.

The mid teens were freakishly wet, leading to high crop yields throughout the United States.  This in turn contributed to a boom in wartime homesteading, due to the increase in crop prices caused by the war.

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Saturday, July 24, 1915. The Eastland Disaster.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, boats and ships, Disaster, German Kriegsmarine, Illinois (Chicago), Royal Navy, World War One