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Brazilian journal A Época highlighting the end of the war with the signing of the Armistice of Compiègne on November 12, 1918. After the war's end, Brazil participated in the Versailles Peace Conference with a delegation led by Epitácio Pessoa, Brazil's future president. Brazil was also a founder of the League of Nations after the end of the ...
Webley M1872 British Bull Dog; Webley Mk IV, Mk V and Mk VI; Webley Self-Loading Mk I; Rifles. Arisaka Type 30 (Royal Navy and home defence only) Arisaka Type 38; Elephant gun (Ad hoc use against sniper armour) Enfield Pattern P1914; Farquhar–Hill Pattern P1918 (Troop trials only) Farquharson M1872 [citation needed] Lee–Enfield Magazine Mk I
However, by the time the Fifth Army arrived, units of the German Second Army were already in the area. Joffre authorized an attack across the Sambre, predicting that the German force had 18 divisions, comparable to Lanrezac's 15, plus another 3 British reinforcements (the British Expeditionary Force). However, Lanrezac predicted much higher ...
The Battle of the Porpoises (Portuguese: Batalha das Toninhas) is the name given to a military blunder involving the Brazilian Navy in the Gibraltar Strait, near the end of the First World War. [1] While on patrol for potential German submarines, the crew of the Bahia slaughtered a passing shoal of porpoises, mistaking them for the periscope of ...
Brazil: Bahia Republic Loyalist victory. Revolt suppressed. Platine War (1851–1852) Brazil Defense Government Entre Ríos Corrientes Santa Fe Argentina Cerrito Government Federalists: Victory. End of Juan Manuel de Rosas' government; Emergence of Brazil as the hegemonic power in the Platine region. Uruguayan War (1864–1865) Brazil Colorados ...
Henry Rawlinson – British General of the Fourth Army, notably at the Battle of the Somme and Battle of Amiens; Hubert Gough – Commander of the Fifth Army (1916–1918) George Milne – Commander of the British Salonika Army at the Salonika front (1916–1918) The Earl of Cavan – Commander of the Italian 10th Army at the Battle of Vittorio ...
The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day. 14 September - The British Royal Navy auxiliary cruiser HMS Carmania fought the German SMS Cap Trafalgar off Trindade in the Battle of Trindade. Carmania sank Cap Trafalgar, but sustained severe damage herself. [3] 15 November - Venceslau Brás is sworn in as Brazil's ninth president. [4]
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