Showing posts with label Central Powers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central Powers. Show all posts

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Tuesday, June 22, 1915. Zapatista advances.

Career Army officer and ally of Zapata, General Rafael Eguía Lis, a Conventionist supporting the sitting government defeated Carrancistas attempting to reach Los Reyes and San Cristóbal.  The Zapatistas, on the other hand, were entrenched in Cerro Gordo, using the Grand Drainage Canal as a defensive line.

German and Austro-Hungarian forces captured Lemberg, restoring Galacia to their control.

A large earthquake occured in the Imperial Valley, California.

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Sunday, June 20, 1915. South Omaha.

Friday, June 13, 2025

Sunday, June 13, 1915. Fighting in what became Poland, and is now part of Ukraine. There's a reason for Grape Nuts.

The Central Powers attacked Lemberg, which became Polish after the war as Lviv, and which is now part of Ukraine as Lvov.

A Polish squadron of 70 uhlans fighting for the Austro Hungarians charged Imperial Russian Army positions at Rokitna on this day, taking the positions, but sustaining heavy casualties.

Foreign powers were replying to notes and the British were buying horses.



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Saturday, May 16, 2015

Sunday, May 16, 1915. Armenian casualties.

The Central Powers established bridgeheads over the San.

Ottoman soldiers killed 6,000 Armenians by artillery fire while covering the evacuation of Turkish women and children from Van.

The Royal Naval Air Service intercepted two Zeppelins, badly damaging one.

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Saturday, May 15, 1915. Night attack.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Sunday, August 9, 1914. The end of the second phase of the Mexican Revolution.

The leaders of the Constitutionalist met with interim Mexican president Francisco S. Carvajal and the unconditional surrender of the Federals in exchange for safe passage of all federal troops and senior government leaders out of Mexico City. The defeated Federals left the following day.


Montenegro declared war on Austro Hungaria.

The French dirigible overflew portions of Germany.

British ships received definitive actual wartime orders to pursue the German warships SMS Goeben and Breslau.

The Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane James Duhig dedicated the opening of St Brigid's Church in Brisbane.

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Saturday, August 8, 1914. Leaving for the Antarctic.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Thursday, July 9, 1914. Huerta defeated.

Obregón took Guadalajara.

It was the effective end of Victoriano Huerta's regime.

Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph was advised his council was working on an ultimatum containing demands that were designed to be rejected by Serbia.

As the recent posts have demonstrated, the "war guilt" clauses imposed on the Central Powers after World War One were not without merit.

Miss Norma Phillips.

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Wednesday, July 8, 1914. Rebels and Emperors.