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In addition, it was an important moral victory for the Allies. Battle of the Frontiers; The early French initiative, to capture territory lost to the Germans in the 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War, which France started, was played out in a series of frontier battles between the Germans and the French, known collectively as the Battle of the ...
"World War One Timeline". UK: BBC. "New Zealand and the First World War (timeline)". New Zealand Government. "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial. "World War I: Declarations of War from around the Globe". Law Library of Congress. "Timeline of the First World War on 1914-1918-Online.
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Battle or campaign Order of battle Date 1861 Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate Hampton Division and Union Department of Virginia: June 10, 1861 Battle of Hoke's Run: Union Army of the Shenandoah: July 2, 1861 Battle of Carthage (1861) Confederate Missouri State Guard and Union Department of Missouri: July 5, 1861 Battle of Rich Mountain
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
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[50] [51] [52] After an advance as far as 23 kilometres (14 mi), German resistance stiffened, and the battle was concluded on 12 August. [citation needed] Rather than continuing the Amiens battle past the point of initial success, as had been done so many times in the past, the Allies shifted attention elsewhere.
Battle of Long Island (a.k.a. Battle of Brooklyn) – 1776 – American Revolutionary War; Battle of Long Jawai - 1963 - Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation; Battle of Longewala – 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; Battle of Loos (see Battle of Artois-Loos) Battle of Lostwithiel (two connected battles) – 1642 and 1644 – English Civil War