Thursday, February 25, 1915. The Cottonwood Bluff War.

Lorenzo Creel, Colonel Michie, General Scott, Marshal Nebeker, Old Polk, Jeff Posey, Chief Posey, Tse-ne-gat, A.B. Apperson.

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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Wednesday, February 24, 1915. Stuck.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Exploration, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Thursday, December 31, 1914. Ottoman disaster, T. S. Eliot being a snot.

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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Monday, December 28, 1914. Ottoman advance slows.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, 1914 at the movies, Battle of Sarikamish, Movies, Ottoman Army, World War One

Friday, February 5, 1915. Tactical airpower in the desert.

British aircraft attacked Ottoman troops east of the Suez Canal.

Wyoming's legislature rejected a Prohibition bill.

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Thursday, February 4, 1915. Ottoman retreat and expanding the war in the Atlantic.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, German Kriegsmarine, Ottoman Army, Raid on the Suez Canal, Suez Canal, Suez Egypt, World War One

Thursday, February 4, 1915. Ottoman retreat and expanding the war in the Atlantic.

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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Wednesday, February 3, 1915. Ottoman's held up.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, British Army, Eastern Front, Egypt, German Army, Health, Imperial Russian Army, Malawi, Ottoman Army, Poland, Raid on the Suez Canal, Suez Canal, tobacco, World War One

Wednesday, February 3, 1915. Ottoman's held up.

Clara Dolores Lopp sitting in front of a shipment of cigarettes and cigars she arranged to have shipped to soldiers fighting in Europe.  World War One would increase the use of cigarettes enormously which resulted in a marked increase in lung cancer by the 1930s.

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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Tuesday, February 2, 1915. Reinforcements.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Canada, Egypt, Espionage, Imperial Russian Navy, Maritz Rebellion, New Zealand Army, Raid on the Suez Canal, Russian Navy, Terrorism, United States

Monday, February 1, 1915. Suez Canal Besieged.

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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Sunday, January 31, 1915. Gas!

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Battle of Bolimów, Catholic, Christianity, German Army, Imperial Russian Army, Raid on the Suez Canal, religion, Suez Canal, technology, Technology is ruining everything, Weapons, World War One

Wednesday, January 27,1915. Ottoman Suez raid, First US nautical loss of World War One.

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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Tuesday, January 26, 1915. Suez and the Rockies.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, British Empire, Colorado, Egypt, National Park Service, Ottoman Army, Suez Canal, World War One

Tuesday, January 26, 1915. Suez and the Rockies.

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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Monday, January 25, 1915. The telephone menace spreads.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Africa, British Empire, Egypt, German Kriegsmarine, Imperial Russian Navy, law, Lighter than air aircraft, Ottoman Empire, Satire, Sinai, technology, telephone

Sunday, January 17, 1915. Messing around in Arabia.

 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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Saturday, January 16, 1915. Cape Evans.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1970s, 1973, Antarctic, boats and ships, Greece, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Monarchy, U.S. Navy

Sunday, January 3, 1915. Coney Island.

 

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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Friday, January 1, 1915. Mexican land reform.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Agrarianism, Agriculture, Australia, German Kriegsmarine, Mexico, Panama Canal, Royal Navy, Venustiano Carranza, Woodrow Wilson, World War One

Monday, December 28, 1914. Ottoman advance slows.

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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December 26, 1914. Boxing Day.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, 1914 Christmas Truce, Boxing Day, Christmas, Christmas Truce, press, World War One

Christmas Day, 1914.

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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Thursday, December 24, 1914. The Christmas Truce.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, 1914 Christmas Truce, British Army, Christmas, Christmas Truce, Conservation, German Army, Personalities, World War One

Saturday, November 21, 1914. 91,000 Canadians, 74,000 Ivy League football fans.

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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Friday, November 20, 1914. James Jordan's buck.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, Deer, hunting, Personalities, Subsistence Hunting, Wisconsin

Monday, November 16, 1914. Occupying Tsingtao

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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Sunday, November 15, 1914. Ottomans cross the Russian frontier.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, Bergmann Offensive, Imperial Russian Army, Ottoman Army, World War One

Sunday, November 15, 1914. Ottomans cross the Russian frontier.

Ottoman forces crossed into Russia and defeated a Russian column near Borchka.

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Saturday, November 14, 1914. Declaring a holy war.

Labels: 1910s, 1913, 1914, Art, Egypt, Islam, Ottoman Empire, World War One

Wednesday, November 11,. 1914. Cavalry at Ypres.

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:

Final German Push at Ypres

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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Sunday, November 8, 1914 Landings at Fao

Labels: 1910s, 1914, Indian Army, Iraq, Ottoman Empire, World War One