Showing posts with label Third Battle of Artois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Third Battle of Artois. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Thursday, November 4, 1915. Villa withdraws.


 I don't think the withdrawal was puzzling anyone who knew what had happened at the battle.

The Third Battle of Artois concluded with the Allies having sustained major casualties and having failed to achieve their objectives.

The French pulled off at Karahojali and advanced toward Veles.

The British besieged a German position at Banjo, Kamerun.

The SM U-38 sank the French troopship SS Le Calvados off the coast of Algeria, killing 740 of the 800 on board..

A contingent of 129 Belizean men departed for the “great fight for civilization and freedom”  and British military service aboard the HMT Verdala.  

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Wednesday, November 3, 1915. Wilson considers ordering troops into Mexico.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Sunday, September 26, 1915. Wab.

The French captured Souchez.  The Germans held in the face of British assaults and inflicted 8,000 casualties on 10,000 meen at Loos.  The French advanced and took 2,000 German pows in the Second Battle of Champagne.

The news of the big offensive hit the U.S. press.

Nobody was accepting responsibility for fighting on the U.S. border.

Wab was taken by a hunter.


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Saturday, September 25, 1915. Large Allied Offensive in France.

Friday, September 25, 2015

Saturday, September 25, 1915. Large Allied Offensive in France.

British troops advancing through gas, September 25, 1915.

The French Tenth Army and the BEF launched offensive attacks on the Western Front.  The main focus was a British effort at Loos and Champagne.  The British used gas for the first time in their efforts, and the British New Army, newly recruited volunteers, were committed to action for the first time.

The British also assaulted the Hohenzollern Redoubt.


Lord Kitchener demanded the redeployment of two British divisions and one French one from Gallipoli to Greece.


Former Princeton football standout Johnny Poe  was killed in action at age 41 while serving in the British Army.

Poe was a restless soul who had served in the National Guard prior to the Spanish American War and hoped to see action in it. He did not, so after briefly working as a cowboy, he joined the Army and served in the Philippine Insurrection.  He subsequently joined the Marine Corps in hopes of seeing action in Panama, but did not.  He was briefly a soldier of fortune in Central America thereafter.

The Ogden Standard posed a question.


The Casper paper warned that U.S. troops might cross into Mexico.


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Friday, September 24, 1915. More border violence, Zapata advances, Bulgaria mobilizes, Tragedy at the Fair.