Wednesday, November 24, 1915. Withdrawals at Ctesiphon.

Both sides withdrew in the Battle of Ctesiphon.

Pristina fell to the Bulgarians.

William Joseph Simmons, inspired Birth of a Nation, founded the second variant of the Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia.  The event included the burning of a cross, something the original Klan did not do, but which the film had depicted.

Simmons would run the organization until 1922, at which point he'd be removed from power  The organization reached its peak membership in 1925, and declined thereafter due to scandal.

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Tuesday, November 23, 1915. Turned back at Ctesiphon.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Battle for Pristina, Battle of Ctesiphon, British Army, German Army, Ottoman Army, World War One

Tuesday, November 23, 1915. Turned back at Ctesiphon.

British forces failed to break through Ottoman lines at Ctesiphon.

Sikh troops were deployed by the British to Matruah in response to Senussi attacks.

German and Bulgarian troops in the battle for Pristina on November 23, 1915.

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Monday, November 22, 1915. British turned back in Mesopotamia.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Battle of Ctesiphon, Battle of Krivolak, British Army, Disaster, French Army, Indian Army, Iraq, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Nogales Arizona-Sonora, Ottoman Army, Pancho Villa, Washington

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.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Allies, Álvaro Obregón, British Army, Constitutionalist Army, Conventionists, Egypt, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pancho Villa

Wednesday, September 29, 1915. The Great New Orleans Hurricane.

A hurricane made landfall in Louisiana, killing 279 people.  The destruction of the storm would not be surpassed for fifty years.

The Germans recaptured lost ground in the Second Battle of Champagne resulting in a French suspension of their campaign.

6,000 or more Ottoman troops were dispatched to break Armenian resistance at Urfa, Turkey.

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Tuesday, September 28, 1915. La Matanza of Ebenezer

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Battle of Loos, Crime, Ethnicities, Indian Army, Iraq, Mexican Border War, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, panoramic, Racism, Texas, Texas (Texas City), Texas Rangers, World War One

Sunday, August 22, 1915. Hill 60.

The Australian 2nd Division launched a dawn attack in the Battle of Hill 60.  It was unsuccessful.

And. well. . . 

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Friday, August 20, 1915. Nicholas II takes command of the Russian Army.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Art, Battle of Hill 60, Battle of Sari Bair, Battle of Scimitar Hill, British Army, Czar Nicholas II, Gallipoli, Imperial Russian Army, Landing at Suvla Bay, Monarchy, Russia, World War One

Wednesday, June 30, 1915. Armenian massacre.

Facing a lack of ammunition, Aremenial militiamen engaged Ottoman troops hand to hand.

They lost, and the Ottomans entered the fort and killed the women and children inside.

The HMS Lightning struck a mine in the Thames Estuary of England and sank.  The German submarine SM UC-2 struck a mine in the North Sea and sank.

French commander Henri Gouraud was wounded at Gallipoli and replaced by his divisional commander, Maurice Bailloud.

A telegram was sent to the Secretary of State from El Paso.

Collector Cobb to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

El Paso, June 30, 1915.

Trial Huerta and others postponed until July 12. When Huerta left Federal building there was repetition of scene of June 27; he was given an ovation by his partisans who are assembled in El Paso.

Cobb.

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Tuesday, June 29, 1915. Airpower comes to the forests.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Aircraft, British Empire, Cameroon, German Empire, World War One

Monday, May 31, 1915. An Armenian provisional state.

Imperial Russian general Nikolai Yudenich arrived in Van, Turkey and appointed Armenian resistance leader Aram Manukian Governor of the Armenian provisional government.

British and Ottoman troops fought in the marshes of the Tigris between the towns of Amara and Qurna, Mesopotamia (Iraq).

The Germans pushed the French back at Souchez.

British and French colonial troops laid siege to German forts around Garua, German Cameroon.

Zeppelin L38 bombed London.

Italian Ralph DePalma won the 5th Indianapolis 500 driving a Mercedes 18/100.

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Saturday, May 29, 1915. Success against the Ottomans.

Labels: 1910, 1915, ANZAC, Art, Australian Army, Gallipoli, New Zealand Army, Ottoman Army, World War One

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

Tuesday, September 28, 1915. La Matanza of Ebenezer

Texas City, Texas.  September 28, 1915.

Between 15 to 30 ethnic Mexicans were murdered by the Texas Rangers at the Alamo (La Matanza of Ebenezer).   An entire series of murders of Hispanics occured in this era based upon guilt by ethnicity.

Field Marshal John French suggested to Gen. Foch that a determined assault at Loos could force a gap in the German line, but Foch demurred.

British and Indian troops defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Es Sinn, taking a strategic point on the Tigris and Euphrates.

J.P. Morgan and the  Anglo French Financial Commission worked out the details on what was, at the time, the largest loan in history.

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Monday, September 27, 1915. Murdered for being Hispanic, Jack Kipling killed in action.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Battle of Loos, Disaster, Mexican Border War, Oklahoma, Petroleum, Racism, Railroads, Rudyard Kipling, Texas, Texas Rangers, World War One

Sunday, September 12, 1915. Musa Dagh.

The German General Staff restricted German airships to bombing London's docks and harbor works.

The Battle of Musa Dagh concluded as a rare Armenian victory over the Ottomans, after a prolonged defensive battle.  The Armenians were evacuated by the French Navy to Port Said.

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Saturday, September 11, 1915. Bulgaria mobilizes.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Bulgaria, Central Powers, World War One

Friday, August 13, 1915. Confused situation in Mexico.

No invasion was really coming, but the situation was pretty confused.

Fighting ebbed at the Gallipoli battle of Krithia Vineyard with neither side being able to advance.

The HMT Royal Edward was sunk by the UB-14.

The Bisson sak the Austro Hungarian submarine U-3.

The British liner Campania was grounded by the 1915 Galveston Hurricane, at Galveston.

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Thursday, August 12, 1915. Trouble in Texas.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Aircraft, boats and ships, British Army, Gallipoli, Haiti, Mexican Border War, Royal Navy, Texas, World War One

Tuesday, August 10, 1915. Storms

As if border raids weren't enough of a problem for Texas, the 1915 Galveston hurricane became just that on this day, being observed north of Barbados.

The Battle of Lone Pine concluded at Gallipoli with the Australians taking 2,277 men killed or wounded, with Ottoman estimates were estimated between 5,000 and 6,000. The Ottoman's prevailed, but at a heavy price.

The Ottomans overwhelmed British defenses at Chunuk Bair.

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Monday, August 9, 1915. Hard fighting at Gallipoli.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenian Genocide, Battle of Chunuk Bair, Battle of Lone Pine, British Army, Gallipoli, German Kriegsmarine, Landing at Suvla Bay, Mexican Border War, Newspapers, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, press, Royal Navy

Monday, August 9, 1915. Hard fighting at Gallipoli.

Hard fighting at Gallipoli continued on.

British forces were ordered to capture Hill Q at night, but disorientation and friendly fire caused the effort to fail.

British infantry of the 32nd Bde were to exhausted after a night march and were destroyed in a Ottoman bayonet charge.

Fighting died down at Lone Pine.

Swedish diplomat Cossva Anckarsvärd released a report stating: "It is obvious that the Turks are taking the opportunity to, now during the war, annihilate the Armenian nation so that when the peace comes no Armenian question longer exists."

The HMS Lynx struck a mine in the North Sea and sank.  

The German auxiliary cruiser SMS Meteor was scuttled in the North Sea.

The news of yesterday's fighting in Texas hit the front pages in Casper.

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Sunday, August 8, 1915. The Raid on Norias Ranch.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenian Genocide, Battle of Chunuk Bair, British Army, Constitutionalist Army, Gallipoli, German Kriegsmarine, Mexican Border War, New Zealand Army, Portugal, Royal Navy, Texas, Texas Rangers, World War One

Saturday, July 10, 1915. Writing the Mexican governments about Huerta.

The Secretary of State to the Confidential Agent of the Constitutionalist Government of Mexico.

Department of State,

Washington, July 10, 1915.

Sir: The Department has received your letter of July 1, in which, by direction of the so-called Constitutionalist Government of Mexico, you request the extradition of General Victoriano Huerta and the detention of Messrs. Felix Diaz, Manuel Mondragon and Aurelio Blanquet with a view to their extradition.

In reply you are informed that, owing to the absence of a recognized Federal Government in Mexico and the well-known conditions existing throughout the Republic, the Department must decline to comply with the request for the extradition of General Huerta.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Cone Johnson.

And; 

The Secretary of State to the Attorney for the Conventionist Government of Mexico.

Department of State,

Washington, July 10, 1915.

Sir: The Department has received your telegram of July 2, in regard to the requisition for the extradition of General Victoriano Huerta addressed by General Fidel Avila, Governor of Chihuahua, to the Honorable James E. Ferguson, Governor of Texas.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Cone Johnson.

And: 

The Secretary of State to the Confidential Agent of the Provisional Government of Mexico.

Department of State,

Washington, July 10, 1915.

Sir: The Department has received your letter of July 3, in relation to the desired extradition of General Victoriano Huerta.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing.

The Russians attacked  the hills west of the town of Malazgirt, Turkey, assuming defenses to be  weak which they were not, leading to a Russian defeat.

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Friday, July 9, 1915. First casualty of the Border War.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, East German Army, Mexican Border War, Personalities, Texas, World War One

Monday, July 5, 1915. Anarchist end, Ottoman failure, British withdrawal.

 Anarchist bomber Eric Muenter committed suicide while in New York police custody.

The Ottoman Army failed at a final attempt to recapture ground in the Battle of Gully Ravine.

British forces withdrew from Lahij, South Arabia.

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Sunday, July 4, 1915. Sedicionistas hit Los Indios. Ottomans and Arabs tribesmen hit Lahij, South Arabia (جنوب الجزيرة العربية).

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Arabs, British Army, Holidays, Immigration, Independence Day, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, Plan of San Diego, Sedicionistas, Texas, World War One, Yemen