Tuesday, August 3, 1915. Aniceto Pizaña.

Texas Rangers, sheriff's deputies and Federal troops engaged in a shootout with Mexican American Texas rancher, a Floresmagonista,  who had been accused by a neighboring rancher of supporting border raiders.  Pizana shot his way out of the siege and fled to Mexico and became a revolutionary. Therefore, whatever the merits of the accusations may have been, the raid actually pushed him into radicalization.

The Polish Legion beat the Russians at the Battle of Jastków.

The Italians halted at Isonzo.

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Monday, August 2, 1915. Garza reenters Mexico City.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico City, Pablo Gonzáles Garza, United States, Venustiano Carranza

Sunday, July 25, 1915. The Bandit War.

Mexican raiders burned a railway bridge belonging to St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.  In response, Governor James E. Ferguson to ordered a unit of Texas Rangers to assist local law in keeping order in the area.

The Bandit War was a result of the instability of Mexico, then fighting the Mexican Revolution.

Italian forces occupied the Cappuccio Wood.

Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, age 56, French socialite, mode John Singer Sargent's painting Portrait of Madame X, passed away.  The painting was originally regarded as scandalous, as in its original version, one of her dress straps had fallen away.   The controversy caused Sargant to relocate from France to the United Kingdom.

It was his favorite painting.

Harvesting was ongoing in the Midwest.

The mid teens were freakishly wet, leading to high crop yields throughout the United States.  This in turn contributed to a boom in wartime homesteading, due to the increase in crop prices caused by the war.

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Saturday, July 24, 1915. The Eastland Disaster.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, boats and ships, Disaster, German Kriegsmarine, Illinois (Chicago), Royal Navy, World War One

Sunday, July 18, 1915. Alpine combat.

250,000 Italian troops engaged 78,000 Austro-Hungarian troops in the Alps in the Second Battle of the Isonzo 

The Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi was sunk in the Adriatic Sea 5 by the Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-4.

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Saturday, July 17, 1915. Fake News. 80%.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Art, Constitutionalist Army, Conventionists, Eastern Front, Golf, Imperial Russian Army, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pablo Gonzáles Garza, Swimming, Women, World War One