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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 ...
Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, Part of the Second Battle of Ypres. May 9 Western: Beginning of the Second Battle of Artois, with the Battle of Aubers: May 10 Eastern: Troops from Hungary rout the Russians at Jarosław. Lviv is again in Austrian hands. May 11 Middle Eastern, Gallipoli: Armistice called at Gallipoli to bury the dead. May 12
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."
This attack marked the beginning of the great Hundred Days Offensive and the Second Battle of the Somme, which continued until hostilities ceased on 11 November. The British Fourth Army, including the American 33d and 80th Divisions, struck the northwestern edge of the salient in coordination with a thrust by the French First Army from the ...
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
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
Battle of Albert (1914) Battle of Albert (1916) Battle of Albert (1918) Allied Troop Movements During Operation Michael; List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Alsace; Battle of Amiens (1918) Battle of the Ancre; Battle of the Ancre (1918) Operations on the Ancre, January–March 1917; Siege of Antwerp (1914) Battle of the Ardennes ...
Lists of battles fought in Africa (see also List of conflicts in Africa) List of battles in South Africa; Lists of battles fought in the Americas Lists of battles fought in U.S. states (see also Category:Battles by U.S. state): Lists of battles fought in Europe (see also List of conflicts in Europe) Last battle on British soil