Australian troops beat back the last major Ottoman attack at Gallipoli. On the same day, New Zealand troops captured a defense post overlooking ANZAC Cove.
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Showing posts with label Gallipoli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gallipoli. Show all posts
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Friday, May 28, 1915.
The French failed to capture, Andres, Pas-de-Calais.
New Zealand troops captured a ridge overlooking ANZAC Cove.
Riots broke out between Sinhalese and Muslims in Kandy, British Ceylon.
Armenian actor Yenovk Shahen, age 34, was murdered in the Armenian Genocide.
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Thursday, May 27, 1915. Armenians.
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Sunday, November 26, 1922. Peanuts, Colorado's, and Gallipoli.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charles Schultz, the great cartoonist.
Schultz was born in Minneapolis and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was an only child that loved drawing from the beginning. He was conscripted in 1943 and served as an infantryman, narrowly avoiding killing a German soldier towards the end of t he war as he fogot to load the M2HB machine gun he was assigned to.
After the war, he first worked for the Catholic comic magazine Timeless Topix. Peanuts had its first appearance, of sorts, in 1947.
I don't have a clue what this photograph is supposed to depict, and only know that it was taken on this day in 1922.
Opera singer Beniamino Gigli and Paul Longone, general manager of the Chicago City Opera Company.
The first popular election for the position of President of Uruguay was held. José Serrato of the Colorado (Red) Party won.
Red would indicate, of course, it's left wing ideology, which it holds. That's because red is the color of the left everywhere in the world, except the US.
Well, it wasn't always that way. When John Birchers used to state "better dead than red" they didn't mean "better dead than a member of the Republican Party". But later, some pinhead reversed the colors in the US as an example of moronic American Exceptionalism. That individual should be sentenced to read Mao's Little Red Book every day for the rest of his life.
Anyhow. . .
The United Kingdom turned control of the Gallipoli peninsula over to the Turks.
Dr. Jack premiered.
Friday, November 18, 2022
Saturday, November 18, 1922. Tragedies near and far.
It was Saturday on this date in 1922, and the Saturday Evening Post went to press with a female golfer, an odd choice for a time of year that's nearly winter in much of the country.
The Naval Academy formed up its midshipmen for a portrait.
United States Naval Academy Midshipmen, November 18, 1922.
On the same day, Greek residents of Gallipoli were being evacuated by sea, their city and region going over to a Turkish government that was not welcoming to Greeks, and which had entered into a treaty of population exchange with Greece.
Greeks being evacuated from Gallipoli.
While a huge tragedy was unfolding in Turkey, a smaller tragedy struck closer to home.
I know the Bolton Creek Road well, but I know of know oilfields on it, although I can think of a fwe abandoned wells. Bear Creek enters the North Platte near where Bolton Creek does, but I don't know of any place that the Bolton Creek Road crosses it. Having said that, there is a good modern bridge across Bear Creek, which is normally dry, on an improved road which just recently was the subject of controversy when the current owners of that ranch, the Martons, attempted to sell it to the Federal Government only to encounter the objection of the State. Hopefully that will be worked out soon.
Anyhow, that would seem to be the probable location of this accident.
Georgetown and Bucknell played a football game.
Georgetown v. Bucknell football game.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Friday, October 20, 1922. First jump.
First Jump. October 20, 1922
Lt. Harold R. Harris bailed out of a Leoning PW-2A over Dayton, Ohio, being the first U.S. military pilot to make an emergency parachute exist from an aircraft. The aircraft crashed at 403 Valley Street without injuring anyone.
Harris. He wasn't the first man saved by parachute, contrary to what this caption states. Balloon crews had used them during World War One and passengers in disabled aircraft had used them before this day in 1922 as well. He was the first aircraft pilot to use one.
Harris was a test pilot, and unlike many in that field, he lived a long life, serving in the military twice as well as having a role in commercial aviation. He died at age 92 in 1988.
The crash site.
Indeed Crimean pilot Pavel Argeyev, who had served in the French and Imperial Russian militaries, died this day in an aircraft accident in Czechoslovakia, which he was flying as a test pilot.
Greece turned over the Gallipoli Peninsula to the Allies, who turned it over to Turkey.
A photo taken on this day in 1922. I don't know what they were doing.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Wednesday, May 19, 1915. Attack at ANZAC Cove.
The Ottoman army launched a third attack on Anzac Cove. The assault included 42,000 troops but it was repelled by the entrenched 17,000 ANZACs. Casualties were massively uneven with Ottoman forces sustaining 13,000 casualties including 3,000 killed, while ANZAC forces had 468 wounded and 160 killed.
Australian medic John Kirkpatrick, who had innovated the use of mules and donkeys to transport the wounded, was killed in the attack.
President of Portugal Manuel de Arriaga announced his decision to resign following the end of the May 14 Revolt.
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Tuesday, May 18, 1915. The Amos Barber Effect.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Monday, May 3, 1915. In Flanders Fields.
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of the Canadian Army, whom a great aunt of mine served with, wrote In Flanders Fields.
Italy officially left the Triple Alliance.
Russian forces retreated from Gorlice.
Australian, New Zealand and British forces withdrew from Baby 700, a hill at Gallipoli after sustaining 1,000 casualties.
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Friday, April 30, 1915. Events on either side of Turkey.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Tuesday, April 27, 1915. Advance at Gallipoli.
Allied forces advanced two miles at Gallipoli.
The French cruiser Léon Gambetta was sunk in the Mediterranean off Santa Maria di Leuca, Apulia, Italy by Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-4 with the loss of 684 of her 821 crew.,
The captain of the submarine was Georg von Trapp of what would become the Von Trapp Family Singers.
The Mormon (LDS) Church established the practice of Family Home Evening. Apparently the night is now on any convenient day, but most Mormons continue to use Monday as the day.
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Monday, April 26, 1915. Leaving one Triple and joining another. French remounts travel through Laramie.
Labels: Battle of Trekkopjes, Canadian Army, Diplomacy, Equine Transportation, French Army, German South West Africa, Italy, The Second Battle of Ypres, Treaty of London, Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, World War One
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Sunday, April 15, 1915. Gallipoli.
The ill fated Allied landing began at Gallipoli with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing at what became known as Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles.
Ottoman resistance was immediate.
Canadian forces failed to retake St. Julien.
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Saturday, April 24, 1915. The beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Friday, February 19, 1915. Opening fire in the Dardanelles.
The HMS Cornwallis and HMS Vengeance engaged Ottoman fortress guns in the Dardanelles.
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Thursday, February 18, 1915. Last stand.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Friday, January 15, 1915. Thinking about Gallipoli and Solidarity Forever.
The British War Council approved plans to open a new front by landing Allied troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
The blame for what would ultimately prove to be an Allied disaster is often placed at Churchill's feet, but in fact the concept was first suggested by an aging Royal Navy commander who was suffering from the onset of Alzheimer's.
There's a lesson in there.
The French submarine Saphir was sunk with the loss of 27 of her crew.
The submarines Saphir and Curie, fallen gloriously in battle, are brought to the agenda of the Naval Army. In his affliction of having seen succumb such valiant servants of the country, the commander-in-chief reminds everyone how proud the army should be to have in its ranks officers and crews capable of heroic actions such as those that were accomplished by these valourous ships whose names will remain in maritime legends. Honour and glory to the officers and crews of the Saphir and Curie, they have truly earned it from the Fatherland.
Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère, admiral of the French navy.
British Home Secretary Herbert Samuel proposed British support for Zionism and a Jewish state in Palestine, in The Future of Palestine.
Norwegian feminist Katti Anker Møller delivered a lecture in Oslo on reproductive rights and decriminalizing in the womb infanticide in Norway.
Labor activist Ralph Chaplin completed the trade union anthem "Solidarity Forever".
When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,But the union makes us strong.Chorus:Solidarity forever!Solidarity forever!Solidarity forever!For the union makes us strong.Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?For the union makes us strong.ChorusIt is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;Now we stand outcast and starving ’midst the wonders we have made;But the union makes us strong.ChorusAll the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.While the union makes us strong.ChorusThey have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learnThat the union makes us strong.ChorusIn our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,Greater than the might of armies, multiplied a thousand-fold.We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the oldFor the union makes us strong.
A familiar package was patented.
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Wednesday, January 13, 1915. The Avezzano Earthquake.
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