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Ottoman machine gun corps during the Second Battle of Gaza, by American Colony Jerusalem (edited by Durova/Fir0002) Ottoman camel corps in the Raid on the Suez Canal , by American Colony Jerusalem (edited by Durova )
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: Battle of Revigny, a phase of the First Battle of the Marne. September 7 – September 24 Balkan, Serbian: Battle of the Drina: September 7 Asian and Pacific: Fanning Raid: September 7–14 ...
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 ...
The Allied counteroffensive, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, began on 8 August 1918, with the Battle of Amiens. The battle involved over 400 tanks and 120,000 British, Dominion, and French troops, and by the end of its first day a gap 24 kilometres (15 mi) long had been created in the German lines. The defenders displayed a marked collapse ...
This is a timeline of the British home front during the First World War from 1914 to 1918. This conflict was the first modern example of total war in the United Kingdom; innovations included the mobilisation of the workforce, including many women, for munitions production, conscription and rationing.
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 ...
The original objective of this new offensive was to draw southward the Allied reserves accumulated back of the British sector, in preparation for a final German attempt to destroy the British Army in Flanders. The French and British defenders were taken completely by surprise, and their positions were overrun rapidly on a forty-mile front.
The timeline of wars has been split up in the following periods: List of wars: before 1000; List of wars: 1000–1499; List of wars: 1500–1799; List of wars: 1800–1899; List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002; List of wars: 2003–present