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==1914== |
==1914== |
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*{{WF}} |
*{{WF}} [[Belgium]]: French cavalry in Belgium. |
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*{{EF}} |
*{{EF}} [[East Prussia]]: Russian First Army advancing. |
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*{{NO}} |
*{{NO}} {{HMS|Birmingham}}, cruiser, sinks German submarine U15. |
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*{{PO}} |
*{{PO}} [[Germany]], by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected. |
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==1915== |
==1915== |
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*{{HF}} [[Zeppelin]] [[air raid]] on Goole, East Riding and Dover begins. One airship is destroyed at [[Dunkirk]]. |
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*{{WF}} British recapture [[trench]]es at [[Hooge]]. French air-raid on Saarbrücken. |
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*{{EF}} |
*{{EF}} [[Osovyets]] evacuated and destroyed by Russians. Night attack on [[Kovna]] fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack. Germans advance east of [[Warsaw]]. |
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*{{SF}} |
*{{SF}} Heavy [[Anzac]] losses; Turks getting stronger. |
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*{{AE}} |
*{{AE}} Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened. Turkish attacks at [[Olti]] and Passin ([[Armenia]]) repulsed. 255,000 Armenians from [[Van]] migrate into [[Transcaucasia]]. |
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*{{NO}} |
*{{NO}} Gadji ([[Cameroons]]) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations. {{HMS|Lynx}}, destroyer, mined and sunk. Turkish battleship ''Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa'' torpedoed by British submarine. |
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*{{PO}} |
*{{PO}} Italian Consuls throughout [[Turkey]] preparing to leave. |
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==References/notes== |
==References/notes== |