Wednesday, February 10, 1915. A warning.

All but a small force of Ottoman troops left the Suez Canal area.

President Wilson warned Germany that it would be held accountable for the loss of American lives or property in the Atlantic.

What we'd now call an Appendix breed horse, Pan Zareta defeated the Thoroughbred Joe Blair in a famous match race at Juarez, Mexico, setting a record that would last for 31 years.

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Tuesday, February 9, 1915. Reorganizing.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Catholic, children, Chile, Christianity, Education, German Army, religion, The roles of men and women, 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

Tuesday, February 2, 1915. Reinforcements.

A company of New Zealand infantry was sent to reinforce Gurkha troops at Lake Timsah, Egypt.  

Boer rebels surrendered to the Union of South Africa.

Werner Horn detonated a suitcase filled with dynamite on the Canadian side of the Saint Croix–Vanceboro Railway Bridge, causing minor damage.

The Imperial Russian seaplane carrier Orlitza was commissioned.

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Monday, February 1, 1915. Suez Canal Besieged.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1915 at the Movies, Egypt, Movies, Ottoman Army, Personalities, Siege of Suez, Suez Canal, World War One

Sunday, January 31, 1915. Gas!

The Germans used poison gas in warfare for the first time, firing shells loaded with xylyl bromide, tear gas, against the Russians at the Battle of Bolimów.

Cold weather prevented it from being effective.

The day saw huge casualties as the German attacks failed, and the Russians countered, which also failed.

The British, alerted to the presence of the Ottomans, prepared defenses for the canal.

Thomas Merton OCSO, whom I frankly have mixed feelings about, was born in France on this day.

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

Labels: 1910s, 1915, boats and ships, Egypt, German Kriegsmarine, Ottoman Army, Raid on the Suez Canal, Suez Canal, 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

Wednesday, January 13, 1915. The Avezzano Earthquake.

Panorama of Lincoln, Nebraska.  January 13, 1915.

The British in Egypt received intelligence information that the Ottomans were planning a raid on the Suez Canal and moving troops accordingly.

The First Battle of Artois ended with France unable to restore battlefield momentum on their side.

An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, killed over 30,000 people.

The HMS Viknor struck a mine in the North Atlantic and sunk.  The U-31 went missing.

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