Sunday, August 30, 1914. The Imperial Russian Army destroyed at Tannenberg.

The German Army wiped out Imperial Russian forces at Tannenberg, taking 92,000 prisoners and inflicting 78,000 casualties.  10,000 Russian soldiers escaped.  The Germans took 12,000 casualties.

Russian commander Alexander Samsonov is believed to have committed suicide after walking into nearby woods. German troops found hsi body a year later.

The Russian chances of ending the war before the winter of 1914 were over, and the German gamble of taking on the Imperial Russian Army early on had paid off.

20,000 Austro Hungarians were taken prisoner by the Russians at Gnila Lipa.

French forces withdrew at Saint Quentin, but in an orderly fashion.

New Zealand invaded and took German Samoa.

Emiliano Zapata agreed to support the government of Venustiano Carranza.

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Saturday, August 29, 1914. Marching.

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Saturday, August 29, 1914. Marching.

Portia Willis, suffragist, pacifist, lecturer, activist, and, oddly, a supporter of US aviators during World War One, at, naturally, the peace parade.

A peace parade was held in New York City demonstrating the naïve American belief, still present to this very day, that demonstrating in the US while it is at peace somehow has an impact somewhere else on other countries fighting.

Elsewhere, more productive, and less noticed, things were occuring.

Belgian nuns ministering to wounded German soldiers.

Taking the parabellum approach, a review of U.S troops took place at Geartheart, Oregon.

The Russian Second Army was caught and surrounded by German forces in open fields near Frogenau, where they were mowed down by the Germans.

Russian troops killed over 60 ethnic Germans in Abschwangen, East Prussia.

A French attack at Saint-Quentin cost 10,000 casualties in an unsuccessful effort which proved costly partially due to a captured French officer having alerted the Germans to the pending attack. The Germans took 7,000 casualties.

The Austro Hungarian Army formed new defensive lines at the Grila River in Ukraine against the Imperial Russian Army.

The British Royal West African Frontier Force engaged the Germans In the First Battle of Garua near the port city of Garoua, German Cameroon.

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Friday, August 28, 1914. Battle of Heligoland Bight

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