Showing posts with label World War One. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War One. Show all posts
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Roads to the Great War: War Inside a Little Village Church
Roads to the Great War: War Inside a Little Village Church: Village Church, Marbotte France St. Mihiel Sector The village of Marbotte was situated just behind the southern boundary of the St. Mihiel S...
Tuesday, April 6, 1915. The Battle of Celaya commences.
The Battle of Celaya commenced which would see Constitutionalist under Álvaro Obregón repelled Pancho Villa's attack at Celaya.
It was a large-scale battle, with 15,000 Constitutionalist contesting 22,000 Villistas. Obregón had arrived early to prepare defensive positions over which Villa would attempt blind cavalry charges to his defeat.
A French attempt to take German defense positions on the lower slopes of the Hartmannswillerkopf failed.
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Friday, April 2, 1915. The Battle of the Wasa'a
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Friday, April 2, 1915. The Battle of the Wasa'a
Australian and New Zealand troops rioted while on leave in Cairo.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
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Wednesday, April 1, 1915. Improving airborne lethality.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1918, French Air Force, French Armée de l'Air, Personalities, technology, Weapons, World War One
Roads to the Great War: "I Didn't Get Over": A World War I Short Story by...
Roads to the Great War: "I Didn't Get Over": A World War I Short Story by...: F. Scott Fitzgerald as an Officer Candidate Introduction from the National World War One Museum: Born in September 1896, Francis Scott Key...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Wednesday, April 1, 1915. Improving airborne lethality.
Aviator Garros before the war.
French fighter pilot Lieutenant Roland Garros scored the first areal kill by firing a machine gun through a tractor propeller.
His propeller.
He was shot down and killed on October 5, 1918, just a month before the end of the war.
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Tuesday, March 30, 1915. Germans fighting Arabs.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, Arabs, Bedouins, German Kriegsmarine, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, World War One
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Tuesday, March 30, 1915. Germans fighting Arabs.
Germans and Bedouins fought for perhaps the first time in World War One when a party of stranded German marines from the SMS Emden was ambushed while being escorted to Jeddah.
German medicts with wounded man in Belgium, March 30, 1915.
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Sunday, March 28, 1915. The first lost American.
Friday, March 28, 2025
British QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti aircraft gun. National Museum of Military Vehicles.
This is a British QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti aircraft gun. Entering service in 1914, they remained in service in various uses, including naval, until 1947.
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Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tank. National Museum of Military Vehicles.
Sunday, March 28, 1915. The first lost American.
The British registered Falaba was sunk by the U-28 in St. George's Channel with American citizen Leon Thrasher on board, leading to a diplomatic crisis.
Thrasher was the first American killed in World War One.
The British ferry Brussels tried to ram the German submarine U-33 after it tried to stop and board her. The submarine had to dive to evade being hit. Submarines were being treated as criminal vessels by the British due to unrestricted submarine warfare.
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Friday. March 26, 1915. A view of Alsace.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Friday. March 26, 1915. A view of Alsace.
The French took Hartmannswillerkopf giving them an observation post for Alsace.
The town of Miami Beach, Florida was established.
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Thursday, March 25, 1915. Loss of the F-4.
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Tuesday, March 23, 1915. Advances at Hartmannswillerkopf.
Great Northern Pacific Steamship Co.'s terminals, Flavel, Or.
French attacks on Hartmannswillerkopf got them within 150 metres of the summit.
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Monday, March 22, 1915. The Imperial Russian Army captured Przemyśl
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Monday, March 22, 1915. The Imperial Russian Army captured Przemyśl
Imperial Russian Army captured Przemyśl ending the longest siege of the Great War. They took over 117,000 Austro-Hungarian POWs which included nine generals, 93 senior staff officers, and 2,500 other officers.
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Friday, March 19, 1915. The Defense of India Act.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, British Empire, India, It was because of World War One, law, Outer space, World War One
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Friday, March 19, 1915. The Defense of India Act.
The Defence of India Act was enacted to provide the colonial government in British India with sweeping powers to enforce the law during the Great War, including independence activities.
Pluto was photographed for the first time.
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Thursday, March 18, 1915. Disaster off the Dardanelles.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1919, boats and ships, Dardanelles, French Navy, Imperial Russian Army, Royal Navy, World War One
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Thursday, March 18, 1915. Disaster off the Dardanelles.
The French battleship Bouvet, British battleship HMS Irresistible and the HMS Ocean struck mines and sank off of the Dardanelles. The Gaulois was beached after striking a mine.
Loss of life was heavy.
The battleship HMS Dreadnought rammed and sake the U-29.
Russian fighter pilot Alexander Kazakov used a grapnel hook to hook his aircraft to a German Albatros in flight. The mechanism didn't work and he ended up ramming the plane.
In spite of stunts like that, Kazakov survived the war only to die in an airshow in 1919.
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Saturday, March 13, 1915. Worries over Japan.
Monday, March 10, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
Wednesday, March 7, 1945. The Bridge at Remagen taken.
The United States Army took the bridge over the Rhine at Remagen intact, and by surprise.
The Battle of Remagen commenced.
The failure of the Germans to have destroyed the heavy railroad bridge, last used by U.S. forces in 1918, was a major failure and the bridge's capture a major event in the advance of the U.S. Army into Germany.
Romania declared war on Japan.
The U-1302 was sunk in the St. George's Channel by the Canadian frigates Strathadam and Thefford Mines.
Related thread:
December 13, 1918. Crossing the Rhine
Labels: 1910s, 1918, 1940s, 1945, Army, Canadian Army, Germany, Occupation of Germany 1918-1919, World War Two
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Tuesday, March 6, 1945. Soviet murders in Poland and Eagle 7.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Roads to the Great War: Le Pèlerin, A French Catholic Magazine Covers the ...
Roads to the Great War: Le Pèlerin, A French Catholic Magazine Covers the ...: Contributed by Tony Langley Le Pèlerin was a French weekly journal founded 1873 by the Roman Catholic Assumptionist order of priests. ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Thursday, December 31, 1914. Ottoman disaster, T. S. Eliot being a snot.
The 1914 Christmas Truce, which was now over, hit the newspapers.
Ottoman forces retreating from Sarikamish bogged down in the woods outside the city. Their numbers had started out at 12,000 and were now 2,500.
Reduced from 12,000 to 2,500 soldiers and a handful of guns, the remaining units fled and freed major routes into Sarikamish for Russians to resupply.
The French retook ground lost the prior day at Champagne.
T. S. Eliot, in a letter to Conrad Aiken from Merton College, Oxford, wrote: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."
University towns were apparently much different then. FWIW, I like university towns.
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Monday, December 28, 1914. Ottoman advance slows.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Christmas Day, 1899
Actor Humphrey Bogart was born in New York City.
His father was a heart surgeon and mother a commercial illustrator whose work was highly valued. He served in the Navy in World War One and turned to acting in 1922.
He died in 1957 at age 57.
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Thursday, December 21, 1899. Leonard Wood goes back to Cuba.
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