Field Marshall John French was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Home Forces in Great Britain.
An Allied column in the Sahara survived a Senussi attack which was repulsed by superior firepower and Australian mounted reinforcements.
The Bulgarian army captured Bogdanci.
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Leyendecker's cover was a Christmas theme. There would not be another peacetime Christmas in the US until 1918.
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The Casper paper termed the situation on the border "serious".
The British reinforced Matruh, Egypt, to guard against the Senussis.
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British forces failed to break through Ottoman lines at Ctesiphon.
Sikh troops were deployed by the British to Matruah in response to Senussi attacks.
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Putting up a post that was made, and then lost;
Villa was in retreat again:
Supreme Leader of the Senussi in North Africa Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi ordered his forces to cross the Egyptian frontier to execute a military coastal campaign against the Allies.
An outpost southeast of Sollum, Egypt was attacked
The Endurance broke up and sank. The Aurora drifted across the Antartic Circle as ice trapping her began to melt.
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Marines under the command of Smedley Butler, who would become profoundly anti war later on, captured Fort Rivière, the last rebel stronghold in Haiti, resulting in 50 rebel casualties.
Senussi tribesman attacked the village of Sollum, Egypt where forces loyal to the Allies were stationed. Two Bedouin soldiers were killed and the telegraph lines sabotaged.
The British Red Cross hospital ship HMHS Anglia struck a mine in the English Channel and sank with the loss of 134 lives.
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The 1915 Galveston hurricane reached the center of the Gulf of Mexico and turned northwards towards the U.S. coast.
There was much ado about Carranza.
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Senussi rebels defeated a force of Italians at Gasr Bu Hadi, Libya.
Italy was not yet a combatant in the Great War.
A small force of British colonial troops defeated a much larger German force at a fort in British Nigeria.
Survivors of the SMS Emden arrived in Al Wajh on the Red Sea where they'd connect with the Hejez railway.
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