Showing posts with label World War One. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War One. Show all posts

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Saturday, June 26, 1915. Burn. Destroy. Kill.

Venezuelan soldier of fortune Rafael de Nogales Méndez, serving with the Ottoman Empire, met with Mehmed Reshid, Governor of the Diyarbekir province, and learned the governor had received telegraphs directly from Interior Minister Talaat Pasha with orders to "Burn-Destroy-Kill" all Armenians in the area.

Georgia Governor John M. Slaton and his wife Sarah Frances Grant left the state under escort of the National Guard after a mob angered by his decision to commute Leo Frank's sentence to life imprisonment threatened them at their home in Atlanta.


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Thursday, June 24, 1915. Advancing on Mexico City.

Monday, June 23, 2025

Wednesday June 23, 1915. Fighting south of Mexico City, and in the Alps.

Troops under Zapatista General Rafael Eguía Lis halted those under Pablo Gonzáles Garza at the Gran Canal.

Italy launched its first major campaign of World War One, attacking the Austro Hungarians above the Isonzo River in the Alps.

Two magnitude 6.3 earthquakes struck within an hour of each other in the Imperial Valley, California.

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Tuesday, June 22, 1915. Zapatista advances.

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Friday, June 18, 1915. Wanted, Horses. War expands in Mexico.

 


The prices were good too.

The Allies ceased offensive operations in the Battle of Artois.

Emiliano Zapata orders all of his senior officers to report for duty.

There were now effectively three armies in the field. One under Villa, which was contesting Obregon, who was allied to Carranza.  A second Carranza army under Pablo Gonzáles Garza that had just been formed by Carranza.  And, finally, the Zapatistas.  None of the leaders of these armies was the de jure head of the Mexican state.

The Motion Picture Directors Association was formed in Los Angeles.

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Thursday, June 17, 1915. Navy to Mexico, Bryan says chillax on war prep, French try to take Vimy Ridge.

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Tuesday, June 15, 1915. Killing the Armenians of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.


The Turks hung  twenty activists with the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party in the Sultan Beyazıt Square of Constantinople.

The victims included Armenian leaders Paramaz, Aram Achekbashian, and Kegham Vanigian.

The party still exists.

British and Canadian forces captured the front line northwest of La Bassée, France but were then pushed back by German grenades and a shortage of ammunition.

French aircraft raided Baden and Karlsruhe, Germany.


Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia died at age 56 of ill health, his condition having worsened due to World War One due to the stress of having close family members in the army.  After his death his diaries revealed that he had been a tormented homosexual.

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Sunday, June 13, 1915. Fighting in what became Poland, and is now part of Ukraine. There's a reason for Grape Nuts.

Friday, June 13, 2025

Sunday, June 13, 1915. Fighting in what became Poland, and is now part of Ukraine. There's a reason for Grape Nuts.

The Central Powers attacked Lemberg, which became Polish after the war as Lviv, and which is now part of Ukraine as Lvov.

A Polish squadron of 70 uhlans fighting for the Austro Hungarians charged Imperial Russian Army positions at Rokitna on this day, taking the positions, but sustaining heavy casualties.

Foreign powers were replying to notes and the British were buying horses.



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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin.

 


Capuchin Friar Blessed Leonard Melki was murdered along with other Christians, including Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants, by Ottoman troops at Mardin.


Included in the murdered was Blessed Ignace Maloyan, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin.

The French advanced 550 yards at Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

British and French forces took control of all garrisons around Garua, German Cameroon.

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Wednesday, June 10, 1925. Creation of the United Church of Canada.

Monday, June 9, 2025

Wednesday, June 9, 1915. Bryan resigns, Wilson sends a letter.


William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State due to his much more neutral position on World War One, and more specifically disagreements with the Wilson Administration's handling of the Lusitania incident.

Wilson sent another letter to Germany over the Lusitania, rejecting assertions she was carrying munitions.

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Tuesday, June 8, 1915. Germans hold back the French, news hits on Villa defeats.

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Friday, June 8, 1900. Boxers attack the racetrack.

Boxers burned the grandstand of the horse racing track at the country club for western diplomats in Beijing.  It unfortunately turned lethal when British horsemen at the track rode out to investigate and one drew a pistol and killed a Boxer, causing the Chinse government to surround the foreigners at the Peking Legation Quarter.

The War Department authorized the production of telescopic sights for rifles.  The rifle at the time was the Krag–Jørgensen rifle, which had proven unsatisfactory in comparison to the M93 Mauser used by Spain in the Spanish American War.

The sight consists of a telescope which is attached by means of brackets to the left side of the rifle. The front bracket is secured to the lower band by two screws, and the ring through which the telescope passes has a horizontal motion to provide for drift and windage. A ball-and-socket joint in this ring allows the telescope to be moved in any direction … The rear bracket is screwed to the side plate of the receiver, and the ring which holds the telescope has a vertical movement for changes of elevation.

Telescopes of three different powers are submitted for trial, viz. 8 diameters, 12 diameters, and 20 diameters. The medium power (12 diameters) gave the best results.

The telescope is of practically universal focus; that is, it does not require readjustment for different marksmen or for different ranges. The eye can be placed close to the eyepiece or several inches away without any apparent difference in the focus. Danger of being struck in the eye when the piece recoils can therefore be avoided.

The lenses are large and are held in place by having the metal of the tubes in which they are mounted spun over their outer edges. The telescope is light, but at the same time strong. The brackets for attaching the telescope to the rifle are strong and durable and there appears to be no tendency to jar loose.

The sight was tested by actual firings up to a range of 2,000 yards, each member of the board participating in the firings. As a result of this test, the board is of the opinion that the use of this telescopic sight appears to be of especial value in hazy or foggy weather and at long ranges. In either case the target can be seen with remarkable clearness, and the marksman can be absolutely sure that he is aiming at the proper object. This would be of especial importance to sharpshooters acting independently.

The ordinary sight is useful for accurate firing at a regular target up to about 2,000 yards; but it is impossible to see a man or even a small body of men clearly at that range unless projected against the sky or under other very favorable conditions. It is for this reason that volley firing is so largely resorted to at long ranges.

With a telescopic sight a man could be distinguished easily at 2,000 yards, even with an unfavorable background.

The board is of the opinion that this sight is suitable for use in the U.S. service, and recommends a number of them be purchased for trial by troops in the field. If found to be satisfactory, a sufficient number should be purchased to supply such a number of the sharpshooters of each organization as experience in the field shall indicate to be desirable.

Only seven scoped Krags were produced. Work was already commencing on a replacement for the Krag which would soon produce the M1903 Springfield, a rifle much more suitable for a scope, but which was not equipped with one for sniping purposes until World War One.

Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, June 8, 1900.

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Thursday, June 7, 1900. Carrie Nation's first act.

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Monday, June 7, 1915. Reinforcing Gallipoli. Leaving Mexico.

The French 2nd Army attacked German positions around Hébuterne, France to support the 10th Army efforts further north at Artois.

The Dardanelles Committee met in London and decided to reinforce the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force of General Ian Hamilton with three divisions from Kitchener's Army.

British pilot Reginald Warneford of No. 1 Squadron shot down a Zeppelin over Ghent, Belgium in hte first instance of an airship being taken on in that fashion.

Foreigners were leaving Mexico.



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Friday, June 6, 2025

Sunday, June 6, 1915. Switzerland approves a war tax. The Great War comes to Wyoming.

The Allies reorganized at Gallipoli and beat back an Ottoman offensive.

The French Army captured the main road leading to Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

The Swiss population overwhelmingly approved a war tax, the first time which a Swiss referendum passed in every canton.

Today In Wyoming's History: June 61915  British commissioners began to purchase remounts in Wyoming.  The purchase of horses for British service in World War One created a boom in horse ranching which would continue, fueled both by British and American service purchases, throughout the war, but which would be followed by a horse ranching crash after the war.


 U.S. Army Remounts, Camp Kearney California, 1917.

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Saturday, June 5, 1915. German forces retook Przemyśl.

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Saturday, June 5, 1915. German forces retook Przemyśl.

German forces retook the lost Austro Hungarian fortress of Przemyśl.

British forces repulsed a major Ottoman counter attack at Gallipoli.

Women obtained the franchise in Denmark and Iceland.

The U-14 was sunk in the North Sea by the HMT Oceanic II.  

The HMS E-11 slipped back through the Dardanelles.


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Friday, June 4, 1915. Bring Your Horses.

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Friday, June 4, 1915. Bring Your Horses.

British, French, and Indian forces made a third and final attempt to capture Achi Baba on the Gallipoli peninsula but were repulsed.  Both side, sustained heavy casualties.

World War One was impacting Wyoming's economy:



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Thursday, June 3, 1915. Battle of León.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Thursday, June 3, 1915. Battle of León.

Troops under the command of Constitutionalist Álvaro Obregón fought those under Pancho Villa at León, Guanajuato in Mexico. 

Obregón lost his right arm in a grenade attack but Villa was decisively defeated in the battle.


The British Indian Army defeated Ottoman troops on the Tigris between the towns of Amara and Qurna, Mesopotamia (now Iraq).

Austro Hungarian troops drove the Russians back to the Dniester.

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Wednesday, June 2, 1915. Wilson: 'Form a Government'.

Monday, June 2, 2025

Wednesday, June 2, 1915. Wilson: 'Form a Government'.

President Wilson was growing irritated at the inability of Mexico to form a government.


The French commenced a pre attack three day barrage on German defenses around Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

Armenians began a month long resistance against the Ottoman Empire due to the genocide  using a fort in the Giresun Province of Turkey.  The uprising was sparked by news that the genocide was coming their way.

Ceylon's Governor Robert Chalmers declared martial law in the colony to arrest violence between Muslims and Buddhists.

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Tuesday, June 1, 1915. Przemyśl.