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Anti-Serbian rioting breaks out in Sarajevo, June 29, 1914. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo – Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina Oskar Potiorek declared a state of siege in Sarajevo as violent pogroms were carried out against ethnic Serbians. Over 1,000 Serbian homes, businesses and churches were vandalized with little or no intervention by law ...
Goeben and Breslau continued their activities in the Mediterranean, and visited some 80 ports before the outbreak of World War I. [6] The navy made plans to replace Goeben with her sister Moltke, but the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on 28 June 1914 and the subsequent rise in tensions between the ...
The invasion and recapture of Lorraine formed one of the major parts of the French pre-war strategy, Plan XVII. The loss of Lorraine (and Alsace ; see above) to the Prussians in the 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War was seen as a national humiliation by the public and military alike, and was at the forefront of their minds for the next war ...
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."
June 21–23 African, East African: Battle of Bukoba. June 22 Eastern: Mackensen again breaks through the Russian lines in the Lviv area. June 23 – July 7 Italian: First Battle of the Isonzo. June 27 Eastern: The Austro-Hungarians re-enter Lviv. June 28 – July 5 Middle Eastern, Gallipoli: The British win the Battle of Gully Ravine. June 29
Date: 3 November 2006: Source: Own work The underlying design of this naval ensign dates from 1786, at which time it was published (flown publically), and therefore it was published well before January 1, 1928 and meets PD-US-expired.
The imperial couple were dead by 11:30 a.m on 28 June 1914; [101] Sophie was dead on arrival at the Governor's residence, and Franz Ferdinand died 10 minutes later. [ 102 ] There is a myth which states that Princip had eaten a sandwich at Schiller's delicatessen just prior to the shooting, but there are no primary sources from the time which ...
The first Senegalese Tirailleurs were formed in 1857 and by the 1930s, men from territories like Chad and Gabon also comprised parts of the corps. These African soldiers served France in a number of wars, including World War I (providing around 200,000 troops, more than 135,000 of whom fought in Europe and 30,000 of whom were killed [ 3 ] ) and ...