Showing posts with label Dardanelles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dardanelles. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Thursday, March 18, 1915. Disaster off the Dardanelles.

The French battleship Bouvet, British battleship HMS Irresistible and the HMS Ocean struck mines and sank off of the Dardanelles.  The Gaulois was beached after striking a mine.

Loss of life was heavy.

The battleship HMS Dreadnought rammed and sake the U-29.

Russian fighter pilot Alexander Kazakov used a grapnel hook to hook his aircraft to a German Albatros in flight.  The mechanism didn't work and he ended up ramming the plane.

In spite of stunts like that, Kazakov survived the war only to die in an airshow in 1919.

Last edition:

Saturday, March 13, 1915. Worries over Japan.

Friday, September 16, 2022

Saturday, September 16, 1922. Strife.


British troops landed with heavy artillery in Turkey in order to prevent the Turks from taking control of the Dardanelles following the Greek defeat.  Meanwhile, Anastasios Charalambis became Prime Minister of Greece in the midst of a military revolt, replacing Nikolaos Tirantafyllakos, who had stepped down.  His service would last but a single day before King Constantine called upon him to abdicate and Sotirios Krokidas was appointed by the military as the new premier.

Things were not going well in Greece.

The League of Nations approved the Trans Jordan Memorandum setting the boundaries of the Kingdom of Jordan and Palestine.  Those boundaries formed the later frame for the boundaries of the state of Israel.

Lev Kamenev was named to a position which was the functional titular equivalent of Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.  Kamenev assumed the position as Lenin was becoming increasingly ill.

He was, of course, executed during Stalin's regime, during which the swimming pool of blood rose higher.

Henry Ford enacted a lock out of his plants, idling 100,100 workers, rather than pay what he regarded as profiteers in the coal and steel industries.

Work was progressing on the James Scott Water Fountain in Detroit.








And the USGS was out on the Colorado River again.








Sunday, March 1, 2015

Monday, March 1, 1915. Locusts.

A locust infestation broke out in Palestine which would continue until October.

Ick.

The Imperial Russian Navy commenced seaplane carrier raids against the Bosporus and the Ottoman Black Sea coast, the first carrier campaign in history.

Last edition:

Sunday, February 28, 1915. Trench Raid.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Thursday, February 25, 1915. The Cottonwood Bluff War.

Lorenzo Creel, Colonel Michie, General Scott, Marshal Nebeker, Old Polk, Jeff Posey, Chief Posey, Tse-ne-gat, A.B. Apperson.

Paiutes and Utes exchanged gunfire with a  posse at Cottonwood Bluff, Utah.  The battle arose when a posse came to arrest Ute Tse-ne-gat who had been accused of murdering a Hispanic shepherd.  Paiutes made the accusation.

The arrest went immediately wrong and both Piautes and Utes resisted.  The war would be negotiated to a peaceful end by Gen. Hugh L. Scott.  Tse-ne-gat was tried in Denver, and found innocent of the charges. Tse-ne-gat died, age 39, of tuberculosis eleven years after the trial. Ute and Paiute chiefs, Polk and Posey, who participated in the war, went to the Ute Reservation in Colorado but found themselves unwelcome there, which is not surprising to those familiar with Ute history.  The returned to a subsistence lifestyle and combined it with cattle rustling.  A second armed outbreak would result in 1923.

The Royal Navy continued bombarding Ottoman seaforts in the Dardanelles.

The Ottomas removed ethnic Armenians from their armed forces.

Last edition:

Wednesday, February 24, 1915. Stuck.