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For the British, however, the battle was nothing short of a disaster, and was recorded in the British Official History of the War as "one of the most notable failures in British military history." [ 16 ] Casualties included 360 killed and 487 wounded on the British side; [ 2 ] the Schutztruppe lost 16 Germans and 55 Askaris killed, and 76 total ...
Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war ...
Battle of the Ourcq, a phase of the First Battle of the Marne. Western: Battle of the Two Morins September 6 African, Kamerun: Battle of Nsanakong: September 6–12 Western: Battle of the Marshes of Saint-Gond, a phase of the First Battle of the Marne. Western: Battle of Vitry, a phase of the First Battle of the Marne. Western
The year the United States entered World War I was marked by near disaster for the Allies on all the European fronts. A French offensive in April, with which the British cooperated, was a failure, and was followed by widespread mutinies in the French armies.
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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More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. [3] [4] More than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of great technological advances in firepower without corresponding advances in mobility. It was the sixth deadliest conflict in world history ...
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