Germans and Bedouins fought for perhaps the first time in World War One when a party of stranded German marines from the SMS Emden was ambushed while being escorted to Jeddah.
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Germans and Bedouins fought for perhaps the first time in World War One when a party of stranded German marines from the SMS Emden was ambushed while being escorted to Jeddah.
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The 1914 Christmas Truce, which was now over, hit the newspapers.
Ottoman forces retreating from Sarikamish bogged down in the woods outside the city. Their numbers had started out at 12,000 and were now 2,500.
Reduced from 12,000 to 2,500 soldiers and a handful of guns, the remaining units fled and freed major routes into Sarikamish for Russians to resupply.
The French retook ground lost the prior day at Champagne.
T. S. Eliot, in a letter to Conrad Aiken from Merton College, Oxford, wrote: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."
University towns were apparently much different then. FWIW, I like university towns.
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Paiutes and Utes exchanged gunfire with a posse at Cottonwood Bluff, Utah. The battle arose when a posse came to arrest Ute Tse-ne-gat who had been accused of murdering a Hispanic shepherd. Paiutes made the accusation.
The arrest went immediately wrong and both Piautes and Utes resisted. The war would be negotiated to a peaceful end by Gen. Hugh L. Scott. Tse-ne-gat was tried in Denver, and found innocent of the charges. Tse-ne-gat died, age 39, of tuberculosis eleven years after the trial. Ute and Paiute chiefs, Polk and Posey, who participated in the war, went to the Ute Reservation in Colorado but found themselves unwelcome there, which is not surprising to those familiar with Ute history. The returned to a subsistence lifestyle and combined it with cattle rustling. A second armed outbreak would result in 1923.
The Royal Navy continued bombarding Ottoman seaforts in the Dardanelles.
The Ottomas removed ethnic Armenians from their armed forces.
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British aircraft attacked Ottoman troops east of the Suez Canal.
Wyoming's legislature rejected a Prohibition bill.
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The Ottoman's were in retreat from the Suez Canal.
Germany proclaimed that neutral vessels would be sunk in British waters.
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The British kept the Ottomans from crossing the Suez Canal.
The Germans started a second siege on Osowiec Fortress.
Co conspirators in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Veljko Čubrilović, Danilo Ilić and Miško Jovanović were executed by hanging.
John Chilembwe was spotted by a police patrol and shot dead near Mulanje, Malawi.
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An Ottoman force numbering 13,000 troops laid siege to the Suez Canal.
William Fox established Fox Film.
Wilhelm Fried Fuchs was born in Tolcsva, Hungary and was a Hungarian Jew. His family immigrated to the US when he was a boy. His movie company still exists in an evolved form.
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The Ottomans took the main coastal road between Qantara at the Suez Canal and El Arish that bordered Ottoman Palestine.
The US barque William P. Frye was detaomed by the German cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich off of the coast of Brazil. She was carrying 189,950 US bushels (1,768,300 US gal) of wheat, bound for Queenstown, Falmouth, or Plymouth in the United Kingdom.
The Germans scuttled her the following day after the captain refused to thrown the cargo overboard. The crew and passengers, including women and children, were released when the German ship put in at Newport News on March 11 due to engine trouble, at which time the US learned of the event, sparking outrage.
She was the first US ship sunk during World War One.
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Ottoman forces attacked January 26, 1915 El Qantara, Egypt on the Suez Canal.
Chilembwe rebels raided a Catholic mission at Nguludi, Nyasaland.
Rocky Mountain National Park was established.
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Ottoman stragglers were rounded up by the Russians at Sarikamish.
The Arab houses of Āl Rashīd and Āl Saʻūd fought the Battle of Jarrab north of Al Majma'ah. Āl Rashīd prevailed. Pre war civil servant and wartime British military advisor William Shakespear, a close friend of Ibn Saud, was killed, resulting in diminished British influence over the House of Saud.
African American radical Lucy Parsons led an unemployed march of 10,000 workers in Chicago. The event would result in a program for the unemployed.
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Ottoman troops were driven out to the Choruk Valley, while also attacking Russian forcdes elsewhere to take pressure off their forces at Sarikamish.
Cardinal Mercier of Belgium was arrested by the Germans for is pastoral letter "Patriotism and Endurance", in which condemned German atrocities, and extorts Belgians to stay Belgian.
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The Ottoman advance at Sarikamish slowed due to exhaustion.
The first Sherlock Holmes film, A Study in Scarlet, was released with American actors Francis Ford and John Ford, the famous director, appearing as Holmes and Watson. Francis Ford directed.
It is a missing film.
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The unofficial truce between German and British troops was widely observed with the troops mingling between the lines and playing soccer.
Elsewhere the war raged on.
Ottoman forces besieged Ardahan, held by the Russians. The Russians were ordered to withdraw from Sarikamish.
The Russians pushed the Polish Legion back at Łowczówek, Galicia, but their defense caused the Russians to halt further advances.
Aircraft of the Royal Navy raided Cuxhaven.
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It was a Saturday and the Saturday magazines were out.
Canada announced that it was increasing the size of the Canadian Expeditionary Force to 91,000 men.
Odd to think that on the same day, Harvard defeated Yale before a crowed of up to 74,000 spectators.
The British entered Basra unopposed.
Turks Beat Back Russians in the Caucasus
The Serbs retreated at Mount Maljen.
The Royal Navy Air Service conducted the first long range strategic bombing raid, hitting German airship hangers at Friedrichshafen, Germany.
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The twelve decentralized locations of the Federal Reserve System opened.
Japanese and British forces took over the port of Tsingtao.
The Austro Hungarian army commenced its third attempt to invade Serbia, choosing to cross the Kolubara River.
Russians Call Off Invasion of Germany
The Russian Army crossed the Aras River in Turkey and attacked Ottoman forces at dawn to arrest their advance.
British forces defeated Ottoman forces defending Saihan, Iraq, south of Basra.
French forces fought through rebel held territory to relieve their forces at Khenifra, Morocco.
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Ottoman forces crossed into Russia and defeated a Russian column near Borchka.
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The Germans broke through allied lines to advance on Zwarteleen, 3,000 yards east of Ypres, There, they were checked by a British cavalry brigade. More on this:
And some fools feel that cavalry played no role in the Great War. It very much did.
Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire, who held the position of Caliph, albeit it was not universally accepted, declared jihad on the Allies, which would seem to have ultimately undermined his position as it was certainly the case that the Central Powers were no more in league with Islam than the Allies.
On the same day Ottoman troops attempted to ambush British troops marching on Basra, but failed.
The Ottomans also, however, counterattacked the Russians, forcing them into a retreat.
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