Putting up a post that was made, and then lost;
Villa was in retreat again:
Supreme Leader of the Senussi in North Africa Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi ordered his forces to cross the Egyptian frontier to execute a military coastal campaign against the Allies.
An outpost southeast of Sollum, Egypt was attacked
The Endurance broke up and sank. The Aurora drifted across the Antartic Circle as ice trapping her began to melt.
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Villa's Division del Norte engaged Constitutionalist under Plutarco Elías Calles at Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico and held the city in spite of having a command less than half the size of Villa's 15,000 Conventionist.
Villa, who had to cross the Sonoran Desert to attack the city, was not aware that the U.S. had recognized Carranza as the de facto head of Mexico. Nor did he realize that President Wilson had allowed Carranza's troops to cross through American territory by train in order to strengthen the garrison, a move that amounted to a direct American intervention in the war. 3,500 fresh, veteran troops traveled through Arizona and New Mexico and arrived in the town in early October, bringing the total number of defenders to 6,500. Villa believed the city was defended by a mere 1,200 men.
Villa's attack featured a daytime artillery bombardment and a nighttime cavalry charge, the latter rendered ineffective by searchlights.
Suffice it to say, Villa did not take the surprises well. Wilson's action in allowing the Constitutionalist to cross the US to reinforce Agua Prieta would lead directly to the raid on Columbus, New Mexico, the following year.
Ernest Shackleton called off a march to Paulet Island due to deteriorating ice conditions. The men returned to a sinking Endurance.
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The crew of the Endurance set off for Paulet Island, 346 miles away, where a food debot from a prior expedition was located.
The French submarine Turquoise was captured by the Ottoman Empire.
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French troops established a bridgehead around Karahojali east of the Vadar River in Macedonia.
Efforts to repair the Endurance having failed, Ernest Shackletn ordered the ship abandoned.
Denver's first Mayor, John C. Moore, died in his early 80s.
Elected before the Civil War, he was a Southerner with strong Southern views and returned to the South to serve in the Confederate forces during the war, rising to the rank of Colonel in the Confederate Army. He was a lawyer by training.
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Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner of Egypt sent a letter to Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca confirming support for Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire and creating an independent Arab state.
The Bulgarian First Army broke through the Serbian line at Pirot in southeastern Serbia.
Haitian rebels attacked a Marine Corps patrol lead by Smedley Butler resulting in an all night fights. Butler, Edward Albert Ostermann and William P. Upshur would win the Congressional Medal of Honor. Dan Daly would win a second Medal of Honor.
The heroic Butler was one of the greatest Marines of all time, retiring as a Major General, and went on to be an anti war politician close to the end of his life. He'd win two Congressional Medals of Honor in his career and sadly die of cancer in 1940 at age 58. The condition he died of, is one that I have had, slighter later in age, and detected earlier.
Serbian Private Radoje Ljutovac shot down an enemy aircraft, becoming the first soldier known to have downed an enemy aircraft from ground fire, firing a captured Turkish fieldpiece on an anti aircraft mount.
He was a veteran of the First Balkan War and would survive the First World War, going on to open a general store thereafter. He died in 1968 at age 81.
The Endurance began to crack up.
Heinrich Schneidereit, German weightlifter and gold and bronze medalist at the 1906 Olympic Games, was killed in action near Thionville, France.
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Russian army nurse Rimma Mikhailovna Ivanova (Римма Михайловна Иванова) was killed in action leading a successful infantry attack after her unit's officers had been killed.
She was posthumously awarded an officer's Order of St. George 4th Class.
The Ross Sea Party ship Aurora caught sight of the Balleny Islands allowing the crew to estimate the distance they had drifted while icebound. The Antarctic islands are extremely remote and were not explored until 1948. They may be volcanic.
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Max Immelmann shot down his first aircraft.
Like most of the famous aces, he didn't survive the war.
Irish nationalist Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. Patrick Pearse delivered a graveside speech including the phrase "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace".
The Endurance broke up.
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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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Ottoman infantry surrendered at Basra. The British would control the port city for the remainder of the war.
Zeppelins of the German Navy bombed England resulting in two casualties.
The Armenian Druzhina seized the lake side city of Van, Turkey.
Ernest Shackleton wrote in his log that the Endurance was at risk of being "crushed like an eggshell" by the piling mass of ice.
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Ernest Shackleton ordered his crew to build ice kennels for the expeditions dogs and covert teh interior of The Endurance, now stuck in the ice for the winter, into winter quarters.
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While the rest of the world was fighting tooth and nail with each other, the Ross Sea Party established a shore base at Cape Evans, Antarctica, in support of the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition.
Greek King Constantine created the Order of George, named after his father, in honor of Greek citizens who had given exceptional public service to Greece. In 1973 it was succeeded by the Order of Honour.
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The French Fourth Army launched attacks from Artois and Champagne-Ardenne.
British Indian troops were dealt a setback by the Germans at Givenchy.
The Aurora arrived at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia to take on final stores before journeying to the Antarctic before proceeding to the same to set out a base for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, still proceeding in spite of the outbreak of World War One.
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Wars within wars, a feature of World War One and World War Two, commenced with a battle between the Austro Hungarian backed Polish Legion and the Imperial Russian Army. The Russians prevaled in the action at at the villages of Laski and Anielin.
Both the Austro Hungarians and the Russians would back different bands of Polish nationalists.
British and French colonial troops captured Edéa in German Cameroon.
The Norwegian schooner Endurance, carrying members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition arrived at the South Georgia Islands.
In another expedition, this one much further north, Captain Robert Bartlett and eight survivors of Karluk arrived in Victoria, British Columbia on USS Bear.
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The UK passed the first Defence of the Realm Act authorizing wartime censorship.
French forces took Muhouse in Alsace, although they'd be pushed back out two days later.
German colonial authorities executed Cameroonian resistance leaders Martin-Paul Samba and Rudolf Duala Manga Bell for treason.
The Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition left the UK for Antarctica, seemingly out of context and now out of their own times.
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