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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 19 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 19 August on The Great War wiki.
1914
- Template:WF - Belgium: Germans reach Dinant-Neufchateau line and occupy Louvain; Belgians, defeated at Aerschot, fall back towards Antwerp.
- Template:EF - Poland: Austrians' advance checked near Kyeltsi.
- Template:SF - End of Battle of the Jadar; defeat of Austrians.
- Template:PO - Kaiser's alleged order for the destruction of "General French's contemptible little army".[1]
1915
- Template:WF - Germans retake trenches on Ablain-Angres road.
- Template:EF - Fall of Novo Georgievsk. Russians driven back between Augustovo and Osovyets (Northern Centre).
- Germans progress beyond the Niemen east of Tykocin.
- Mackensen reaches Piszcza and gains ground towards Brest-Litovsk.
- Ae – - Turks prevent Italians leaving Smyrna.
- Template:NO - USA liner Arabic (White Star) torpedoed and sunk. Americans on board.
- Template:PO - Reichstag opened; speech by Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg.[2] Bulgarian Foreign Minister resigns.
- British forces total 3,825,000, including Colonial troops.
References/notes
Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)
- ↑ Extract from Order reported issued by the Emperor, 19 August, 1914, H.Q., Aix-la-Chapelle:- "It is my Royal and Imperial Command that you concentrate your energies....to exterminate first the treacherous English, and to walk over General French's contemptible little army."
- ↑ Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg accuses the Allies of having caused the war and of seeking to deceive the people as to the real situation.