Showing posts with label Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive. Show all posts

Thursday, June 5, 2025

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.


Last edition:

Friday, June 4, 1915. Bring Your Horses.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

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.

Last edition:

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

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

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.

Last edition:

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

Saturday, May 9, 2015

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.

Last edition:

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