Monday, April 26, 1915. Leaving one Triple and joining another. French remounts travel through Laramie.

The secret Treaty of London was signed in which Italy agreed to abandon the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austro Hungaria and join the Triple Entente in exchange for Austro Hungarian territory.

Canadians attacked St. Julien again, but were once again forced back.

Horses in transit to the French Army travelled through Laramie.

German colonial forces attacked the South African-held town of Trekkopje in South West Africa but were repulsed by a unit of armored cars equipped with machine guns.

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Sunday, April 15, 1915. Gallipoli.

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Thursday, May 13, 1915. Sending a message.

President Wilson wrote a letter to Germany calling on it to abandon submarine warfare on commercial ships.

Canadians held the line at Frezenberg Ridge but sustained huge casualties doing so.  Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry went from 700 men to 150 men resulting in the unit's unofficial motto – "Holding up the whole damn line".

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Wednesday, May 12, 1915. Mackensen ordered to advance.

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Sunday, April 15, 1915. Gallipoli.

The ill fated Allied landing began at Gallipoli with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing at what became known as Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles.

Ottoman resistance was immediate.

Canadian forces failed to retake St. Julien.

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Saturday, April 24, 1915. The beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

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Saturday, April 24, 1915. The beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

The Armenian Genocide began with the deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople.

It's always easiest for the oppressor to remove those whom they'd like to repress. . . 

The Germans launched a gas attack on Canadian positions at St. Julien, which allowed them to take the village.

The RMS Lusitania arrived in New York City coincident with the German embassy in Washington D.C. issuing a public warning that the waters around Great Britain being a war zone and that ships flying a British flag would be considered targets.

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Thursday, April 22, 1915. Gas!

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Thursday, April 22, 1915. Gas!

The Germans used gas in scale for the first time at Ypres.  The Allies sustained mass casualties, but Canadians, improvising protection with urine soaked rags, held their ground.

The First German Gas Attack at Ypres by William Roberts 

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Wednesday, April 21, 1915.

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