Pancho Villa's forces departed from Plaza de Namiquipa and disappeared. They would not be fully heard from again until March 9.
The German garrison at Mora surrendered after a year and a half long siege.
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Allied commander Brigadier General Frederick Hugh Cunliffe sent a message to German commander Captain Ernst von Rabe at the mountain fortress near Mora in Kamerun (now modern-day Cameroon), offering terms of surrender that included all African native soldiers to be allowed safe passage back to their home villages and all German troops interned in England.
Rabe accepted the terms with an additional offer all the native soldiers be paid for their military service.
Ottoman forces around Erzurum were evacuated.
British forces were forced off of "the Bluff" in Belgium. The Germans, however, sustained inordinate casualties in the effort.
Followers of putative Vietnamese Emperor Phan Xích Long attempted to break him out of his prison in Saigon. They failed.
Airborne reconnaissance located the new location of the Senussis.
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In Flanders Fields was published anonymously in Punch.
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of the Canadian Army, whom a great aunt of mine served with, wrote In Flanders Fields.
The Bulgarians broke through Anglo French lines at Kosturino.
British troops burned an African village that had been supplying the Germans at the Siege of Mora.
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American cartoonist Johnny Gruelle was given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
Frankly these kind of freak me out, but then a lot of dolls do.
Two German Army zeppelins raided England but without huge success. One of them later crashed in Germany.
British forces made an unsuccessful assault at Mora.
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French troops on Hartmannswillerkopf summit in Alsace surrendered while Allies cut off food and water to German defenders on Mora mountain in German Cameroon.
A train from Guadalajara, Mexico derailed and plunged into a canyon, killing resulting in the deaths of over 600 passengers.
Oddly enough, on the same day this train carrying Carranza's troops was photographed.
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