The Central Powers took Debar, Serbia, ending the Kosovo Offensive and effectively eliminating the Serbian army
The original war aim, now hopelessly lost, was achieved.
The Pan American International Exposition closed.
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Thursday, December 4, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Monday, November 22, 1915. British turned back in Mesopotamia.
The Indian Expeditionary Force D, mostly made up of Indian units and under the command of Gen. Sir John Nixon, attacked a more powerful force of Ottoman troops under the command of Nureddin Pasha near the site of the ancient city of Ctesiphon, located on the Tigris southeast of Baghdad.
Both sides took high casualty rates, but the battle arrested British progress in Mesopotamia and forced a British withdrawal.
The French evacuated the Vardar region of Macedonia in light of the defeat of the Serbian Army.
While the fighting in Europe had much of the front news attention in the US, in Texas it was Villa's plight south of the border, and how that might spill into the US.
Larrabee State Park was created in Washington.
The circus/carnival train owned by Con T. Kennedy was hit head on by the engine of a Central of Georgia passenger train east of Columbus, Georgia. The resulting crash resulted in at least 15 deaths of circus workers and perhaps up to 25, who were buried in a common grave.
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Sunday, November 20, 1915. Villa in retreat. . . again.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Saturday, November 13, 1915. French fall back in Macedonia.
The French fell back to Bitola, Macedonia, and halted offensive operations in the Vardar region.
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Thursday, November 11, 1915. Churchill resigns, war in Morocco resumes.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Thursday, November 11, 1915. Churchill resigns, war in Morocco resumes.
The French captured a pair of key Bulgarian defense positions in Vardar Macedonia, but by the evening Bulgarian forces caused a French withdrawal.
An informal truce ended in Morocco when a French convoy was attacked by a large party of Zayanes.
Churchill Resigns After Exclusion from New War Committee
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Wednesday, November 10, 1915. Staging on Hermosillo.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Wednesday, October 20, 1915. Arms okay for Carranza.
The impact of Woodrow Wilsons' administration recognizing Carranza, whose followers had blown off the Convention of Aguascalientes, and who personally hated the United States, was becoming immediately clear.
Arms to Carranza. . . that would tip the scales for sure.
While Wilson had his hand on the scale of the Mexican Revolution, he was issuing a proclaimation about American Thanksgiving.
President Wilson issued a proclamation regarding Thanksgiving.
Proclamation 1316—Thanksgiving Day, 1915
October 20, 1915
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
It has long been the honoured custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. The year that is now drawing to a close since we last observed our day of national thanksgiving has been, while a year of discipline because of the mighty forces of war and of change which have disturbed the world, also a year of special blessing for us.
Another year of peace has been vouchsafed us; another year in which not only to take thought of our duty to ourselves and to mankind but also to adjust ourselves to the many responsibilities thrust upon us by a war which has involved almost the whole of Europe. We have been able to assert our rights and the rights of mankind without breach of friendship with the great nations with whom we have had to deal; and while we have asserted rights we have been able also to perform duties and exercise privileges of succour and helpfulness which should serve to demonstrate our desire to make the offices of friendship the means of truly disinterested and unselfish service. Our ability to serve all who could avail themselves of our services in the midst of crisis has been increased, by a gracious Providence, by more and more abundant crops. our ample financial resources have enabled us to steady the markets of the world and facilitate necessary movements of commerce which the war might otherwise have rendered impossible; and our people have come more and more to a sober realization of the part they have been called upon to play in a time when all the world is shaken by unparalleled distresses and disasters. The extraordinary circumstances of such a time have done much to quicken our national consciousness and deepen and confirm our confidence in the principles of peace and freedom by which we have always sought to be guided. Out of darkness and perplexity have come firmer counsels of policy and clearer perceptions of the essential welfare of the nation. We have prospered while other peoples were at war, but our prosperity has been vouchsafed us, we believe, only that we might the better perform the functions which war rendered it impossible for them to perform.
Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday the twenty-fifth of November next as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease from their wonted occupations and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks to Almighty God.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth.
Signature of Woodrow Wilson
Louis Botha, once a Boer General, of the South African Party won the 1915 South African general election and retained power.
French forces reached the town of Krivolak on the Vardar river in Vardar Macedonia. The British dug in at a mountain pass near Kosturino and Doiran Like.
The Ottoman Empire brought an end to Armenian resistance at Urfa.
The British Commonwealth recognized women as bus and tram operators for the duration, something that had been going on for some time.
Sweden established the Swedish Infantry Officers College.
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Tuesday, October 19, 1915. The US extends recognition to Carranza.
Monday, May 6, 2024
Tuesday, May 6, 1924. After shocks of World War One and the beginnings of the 30s.
The Soviet Union suspended trade with Germany over the Bozenhardt incident.
The founding meeting of the anti-Semitic Romanian organization Frăția de Cruce was raided by the Romanian national police under orders of local police chief Constantin Manciu.
Macedonian separatist presented their May Manifesto.
Bride's party, May 6, 1924.
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Monday, May 5, 1924. Cuban revolt spreads.
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Thursday, July 22, 1943. Palermo falls to the Seventh Army. Greeks riot over Macedonia, US landings at Munda Point.
Patton's Seventh Army entered Palermo to an enormous celebration by the residents of the ancient city. Two captured Italian generals, in turn, claimed to be happy about the event because "the Sicilians were not human beings but animals" ("i Siciliani non erano esseri umani ma animali").
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Seventh Army staff aboard SS Monrovia, en route to Sicily, June/July 1943.
The Italian fascist government had held anti-Sicilian views due to Sicily's long peculiar history.
The island has been inhabited since ancient times and was a destination for Italic and Phoenician colonists as far back as 1200 BC, who displaced the already existing Sicilian population. Greek colonization commenced around 750 BC. In antiquity, it was contested by the Greeks and Carthaginians, both of whom conquered it at different times. The Romans conquered it and displaced the Carthaginians and declared that the island should be latinized, although its culture remained, at the time, Greek. With the fall of the Roman Empire, it fell to invading Germanic tribes, with the Vandals taking Palermo in 440. The Byzantine Empire then retook it, as the Eastern Roman Empire, and ruled it from the 550s to the 960s, during which time the Arabs began to attempt to take it. From the 820s through the 960s, it slowly fell to Muslim invaders.
The Normans arrived starting in 1038, around thirty years prior to their invasion of England, and began to take it from the Arabs. They formed a Norman kingdom that lasted until 1198, becoming part of the typical drama of European kingdoms at the time. The Normans imported European settlers to the island, which went from being 1/3d Greek speaking and 2/3s Arabic speaking to being latinized once again. It went back and forth to varying European households until 1860, when the Italians conquered it. It became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
During the fascist period the island was subject to unwelcome attention in part because Italians have never really regarded Sicilians as Italians, given their multi-ethnic heritage, and part because the strong local character of the island was unwelcome. Also, unwelcome was the fairly strong local Communist Party and the Sicilian Mafia. The fascist nearly crushed the Mafia during their period in power.
A general strike was called in Athens over Bulgarian intentions to annex Macedonia, which resulted in a massive protest in the city over the same thing.
The protests were successful in that they postponed the Bulgarian plans to the point that they were never carried out.
The SS executed all of the remaining 2,500 inmates of the Tarnopol concentration camp.
US infantry during the battle.
The Battle of Munda Point began on New Georgia. The object was the points' airfield, in what would become a hard fought campaign.
The U.S. Navy raided Kiska.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
April 20, 1941. Reversals in the Balkans.
Jubilant crowed in Skopje caring portraits of Bulgarian Tsar Boris III and Adolph Hitler. Macedonia had a significant Bulgarian minority and Bulgarian troops occupied much of it during the war. Given this, the region was at first sympathetic to the Axis in the form of Bulgaria. Tsar Boris was a popular figure in Bulgaria who did not live to see the war completed. He participated in the repression of his country's Jewish population but he would not agree to deportation to the death camps, nor would he agree to participate in the war against the Soviet Union. He died in 1943 shortly after meeting with Hitler and some have suspected he was poisoned.
Things were not going well for the Allies in the Balkans.
On this day Albania surrendered to Italy, something that was perhaps inevitable but which is remarkable not for occurring, but for how long Albania was able to manage to avoid that result. It had held out with Greek support until the German intervention in the war reversed Greek and Albanian fortunes in the region. Also on this day the Greek III Army Corps surrendered to the Germans.
On the same day, the Battle of Athens, an air battle over that city took place.
The British did conduct a successful commando raid at Bardia, behind German lines in North Africa, causing the Germans to have to detail troops to their rear.
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Countdown on the Great War: October 28, 1918. The German Navy rebels and scuttles, the Hungarians quit Austria and the German army continues to take to the air.
1. Having received orders to set sail to engage the British fleet, German sailors at Schillig Roads mutiny and refuse to prepare to get underway and refuse to weigh anchor The crews of two of the ships, battleships, commit sabotage on their vessels. What would become the Kiel Mutiny had commenced.
2. The Germans scuttle seven submarines based at Pula, Austro Hungaria. Another was scuttled at Trieste, Italy.
3. Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austro Hungaria.
4. Revolution breaks out in Hungary as the Hungarian National Council proclaims its independance from Austria.
7. The Germans established nine new air squadrons.
2. The Germans scuttle seven submarines based at Pula, Austro Hungaria. Another was scuttled at Trieste, Italy.
3. Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austro Hungaria.
4. Revolution breaks out in Hungary as the Hungarian National Council proclaims its independance from Austria.
Hungarian revolutionaries, including soldiers, with Aster flowers. The flowers gave their name tot he rebellion, the Aster Revolution.
5. The Austro Hungarian high command ordered a general retreat from all northern Italian positions.
6. The Allies capture Makri and Evros in Macedonia.
7. The Germans established nine new air squadrons.
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Sunday, November 7, 1915. Seas of blood.
3,000 ZAPATISTAS YIELD.; Surrender with a Leader to General Pablo Gonzales at Capital.
Headline in the New York Times.
The French failed in their effort to capture the monastery stronghold at Vardar.
Walter M. Geddes, finding his witness to the Armenian genocide too much to bear, killed himself at Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. He had been working in Aleppo when he witnessed the Ottoman atrocities and had recorded what he saw for the American embassy.
He, too, was a victim of Ottoman barbarity.
Mary Pickford was the story of the film adaptation of Madama Butterfly, which is an odd thought given that the silent movie era was still ongoing.
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Saturday, November 6, 1915. Another French offensive halts.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Friday, November 5, 1915. March of the Dungarees.
French forces captured Kamen Dol, Debrista in Vardar Macedonia and occupied the Gradsko rail station.
British forces launched an assault on the German mountain fort near Banjo, Kamerun.
The Queensland Recruiting Committee held a public meeting in the Exhibition Hall in Brisbane to initiate a "snowball recruitment march"which would become the March of the Dungarees. A snowball recruiting march was a walking long distance march that gathered volunteers, like a rolling snowball, as it went along.
The march was named for the jackets issued to marchers.
Australian interest in the Great War wsa flagging following Gallipoli. Overall, results were disappointing.
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Thursday, November 4, 1915. Villa withdraws.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Thursday, November 4, 1915. Villa withdraws.
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I don't think the withdrawal was puzzling anyone who knew what had happened at the battle.
The Third Battle of Artois concluded with the Allies having sustained major casualties and having failed to achieve their objectives.
The French pulled off at Karahojali and advanced toward Veles.
The British besieged a German position at Banjo, Kamerun.
The SM U-38 sank the French troopship SS Le Calvados off the coast of Algeria, killing 740 of the 800 on board..
A contingent of 129 Belizean men departed for the “great fight for civilization and freedom” and British military service aboard the HMT Verdala.
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Wednesday, November 3, 1915. Wilson considers ordering troops into Mexico.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Tuesday, November 2, 1915. The nighttime attacks at Agua Prieta.
Following a day of artillery fire, Villa started launching mounted charges, described yesterday, on Agua Prieta. The town holds all night. At 7:00 a fourth and final assault is launched, and failed. Villa then withdrew towards Naco.
Constitutionalist at Agua Prieta. The enlisted men are equipped with Mausers, likely in 7x57. An officer in the background is firing a Winchester rifle.
Villa was a superb natural cavalryman and his tactics at Agua Prieta showed that he had in fact learned from a recent defeat that overrunning dug in infantryman was difficult, hence the nighttime assault, which reduced the effectiveness of the defense against a rapidly advancing force. He was not prepared, however, for the increased number of defenders, brought in by train transport across New Mexico and Arizona, and Calles anticipated the nighttime assault and was equipped with floodlights.
It was the second major defeat Villa had suffered in a couple of months, putting his command in great peril.
The French threw two temporary bridges across the Vadar
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Wednesday, October 27, 1915. Abandoning the Endurance.
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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Tuesday, October 26, 1915. Coaxing the Afghanis.
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