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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 La Malmaison, much-postponed French attack on the Chemin des Dames. October 24 – November 4 Italian: Battle of Caporetto. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans break through the Italian lines. The Italian army is defeated and falls back on the Piave River. October 26 Politics: Brazil declares war on Germany. [24]
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."
General Pershing authorized the results of the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, the greatest battle in American history up to that time, in his Final Report: "Between 26 September and 11 November, 22 American and 4 French divisions, on the front extending from southeast of Verdun to the Argonne Forest, had engaged and decisively beaten 47 different ...
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The Battle of McIntyre Farm took place on October 3, 1780 between Patriot militia under Captain James Thompson and a combined force of British regulars and Loyalists under Captain John Doyle in northern Mecklenburg county, North Carolina. The event is also known as the "Battle of the Bees" or the "Battle of the Hornets Nest".
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 ...