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Sep 1, 2024 · Approximately 1. Three million Indian squaddies served in World War One – and extra than 74,000 of them lost their lives. It’s one hundred years for the reason that the armistice of Martinmas 1918 ended what become once called “the struggle to stop all wars.”
4 days ago · For the British, Sir Douglas Haig’s 1st Army, between Armentières and Lens, tried a new experiment at Neuve-Chapelle on March 10, when its artillery opened an intense bombardment on a 2,000-yard front and then, after 35 minutes, lengthened its range, so that the attacking British infantry, behind the second screen of shells, could overrun the tr...
Sep 4, 2024 · Eastern Front, major theater of combat during World War I that included operations on the main Russian front as well as campaigns in Romania. The Eastern Front, which stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, was more than twice as long as the Western Front.
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Aug 23, 2024 · The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st ...
4 days ago · The summer of 1916 saw the long-deferred confrontation of Germany’s High Seas Fleet and Great Britain’s Grand Fleet in the Battle of Jutland —history’s biggest naval battle, which both sides claimed as a victory.
Aug 15, 2024 · A new book describes how men from Abilene and other Kansans participated in World War I. The book is entitled Kansas and Kansans in World War I and is published by the University Press of Kansas.
Aug 25, 2024 · The war hit society at all levels. On 13 October 1914, the day before Ostend was overrun by the Germans, staff and pupils at Koninklijk Werk IBS, a local school, fled on IBIS VI, a steam trawler, to Milford Haven in Wales, which was to provide a refuge for them throughout the war.
