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.

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

Wednesday, April 14, 1915. The British secure Basra.

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.

Last edition:

Tuesday, April 13, 1915. Even matches.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Álvaro Obregón, Battle of Celaya, Battle of Shaiba, boxing, British Army, cavalry, Indian Army, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Ottoman Army, Pancho Villa, Sports, Victoriano Huerta, World War One

Wednesday, February 24, 1915. Stuck.

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.

Last edition:

Tuesday, February 23, 1915. Movies aren't speech (well, yes, they are).

Labels: 1920s, 1925, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Japan

Saturday, January 16, 1915. Cape Evans.

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.

Sailors waving from the crow’s nest of the Wyoming class battleship USS Arkansas (BB-33)., January 16, 1915.

Last edition:

Friday, January 15, 1915. Thinking about Gallipoli and Solidarity Forever.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Abortion, Disaster, Folk Music, French Navy, Gallipoli, Israel, Music, Norway, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Protest Music, Solidarity, Turkey, Unions, Winston Churchill, World War One, Zionism

Sunday, December 20, 1914. Champagne.

Trout Lake in Vancouver was opened for skating.

The French Fourth Army launched attacks from Artois and Champagne-Ardenne.

French troops waiting in their trenches before an attack in the Battle of Champagne.

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.

Last edition:

Friday, December 18, 1914. Africa and the Great War.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, Angola, British Empire, Egypt, German Empire, Ottoman Empire, Portuguese Empire, World War One

Monday, October 26, 1914. Wars within wars.

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.

HMS Liverpool and HMS Fury with RMS Olympic, try to take the sinking HMS Audacious in tow. October 26, 1914.

Last edition:

Sunday, October 25, 1914. Change of command.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, German Army, World War One

Saturday, August 8, 1914. Leaving for the Antarctic.

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.

Last edition:

Friday, August 7, 1914. The BEF arrives in France.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, Alaska, Alsace-Lorraine, Battle of the Frontiers, British Army, British Empire, French Army, Ghana, Spain, World War One