Sunday, September 19, 1915. Occupying Vilnius.

The Germans occupied Vinius bringin the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive to a successful conclusion.

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Saturday, September 18, 1915.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Art, Birds, Charles Livingston Bull, Owls

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.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Nebraska, Nebraska (Omaha)

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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Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Africa, Armenian Genocide, Cameroon, Christianity, French Army, German Empire, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, Second Battle of Artois, Turkey, World War One

Saturday, June 5, 1915. German forces retook Przemyśl.

German forces retook the lost Austro Hungarian fortress of Przemyśl.

British forces repulsed a major Ottoman counter attack at Gallipoli.

Women obtained the franchise in Denmark and Iceland.

The U-14 was sunk in the North Sea by the HMT Oceanic II.  

The HMS E-11 slipped back through the Dardanelles.

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Friday, June 4, 1915. Bring Your Horses.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Animals, British Army, Equine Transportation, French Army, Gallipoli, Indian Army, Ottoman Army, World War One, Wyoming

Thursday, June 3, 1915. Battle of León.

Troops under the command of Constitutionalist Álvaro Obregón fought those under Pancho Villa at León, Guanajuato in Mexico. 

Obregón lost his right arm in a grenade attack but Villa was decisively defeated in the battle.

The British Indian Army defeated Ottoman troops on the Tigris between the towns of Amara and Qurna, Mesopotamia (now Iraq).

Austro Hungarian troops drove the Russians back to the Dniester.

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Wednesday, June 2, 1915. Wilson: 'Form a Government'.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Ceylon, French Army, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Second Battle of Artois, Shabin-Karahisar uprising, Sri Lanka, Woodrow Wilson, World War One

Tuesday, June 1, 1915. Przemyśl.

German infantry occupied three large forts around Przemyśl.

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Monday, May 31, 1915. An Armenian provisional state.

Labels: Armenia, Automobile racing, Battle of Amara, British Army, Cameroon, Defense of Van, German Army, Iraq, Lighter than air aircraft, Ottoman Army, Second Battle of Artois, Second Battle of Garua, World War One

Wednesday, May 12, 1915. Mackensen ordered to advance.

General August von Mackensen was ordered to advance to the San River and establish bridgeheads on the east bank.  While that was going on, further to the south Ottoman forces were unable to slow a Russian advance on Van.

French forces at Artois took 3,000 German POWs.

South African forces took Windhoek, German South West Africa.

The U.S. Army formed its 2nd Aero Squadron.

The stuck ship of the Ross Sea party, the Aurora, was drifting northwood with the ice attempted to make a radio broadcast to the stranded members of the party at Cape Evans.

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Tuesday, May 11, 1915. Taking the high ground.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, French Army, Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, Imperial Russian Army, Second Battle of Artois, World War One

Tuesday, May 11, 1915. Taking the high ground.

French forces took vital high ground locations from the Germans in the  Second Battle of Artois.

The Russians regroup and dug at the San River.

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Monday, May 10, 1915. "There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."

Labels: 1910s, 1915, boats and ships, French Army, German Army, Germany, RMS Lusitania, Second Battle of Artois, the spoken word, Woodrow Wilson, World War One

Sunday, May 9, 1915. Combined offensive.

French and British forces launched offensives, the French at Artois and the British to the north at Aubers Ridge.

The British attack was an unmitigated disaster.  The tragedy of it, in a way, resulted in the poignant painting The Last General Absolution of the Munster Fusiliers which appeared in The Sphere.

Russian Grand Duke Nicholas permitted a limited withdrawal of Imperial Russian forces as Austro-Hungarian Third and Fourth Armies pressed forward in the Carpathian Mountains.

The German government released a report accepting responsibility for the sinking of the RMS Lusitania but maintaining that the ship was carrying munitions in spite of its pre trip inspection that showed it was not.

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Friday, May 7, 1915. The Sinking of the Lusitania.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, boats and ships, German Kriegsmarine, RMS Lusitania, World War One

Wednesday, May 5, 1915. The Germans broke through and took 140,000 Russian soldiers in the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive.

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Monday, May 3, 1915. In Flanders Fields.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Australian Army, British Army, Canadian Army, Gallipoli, Imperial Russian Army, Italy, New Zealand Army, Ottoman Army, The written word, Triple Alliance, World War One