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In addition, it was an important moral victory for the Allies. Battle of the Frontiers; The early French initiative, to capture territory lost to the Germans in the 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War, which France started, was played out in a series of frontier battles between the Germans and the French, known collectively as the Battle of the ...
Most German forces in German New Guinea surrender to the Australians then or over the following year. September 15, 1914 - Feb 4, 1915 African, South West Africa: Maritz rebellion. Boers leader Manie Maritz revolts in South Africa. September 19 – October 11 Western: Battle of Flirey: September 20 Naval, African, East African
List of battles of the Eighty Years' War (1566–1648) Lists of battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815) List of American Civil War battles (1861–1865) List of costliest American Civil War land battles; List of naval battles of the American Civil War; List of military engagements of World War I (1914–1918)
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 ...
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."
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.
[50] [51] [52] After an advance as far as 23 kilometres (14 mi), German resistance stiffened, and the battle was concluded on 12 August. [citation needed] Rather than continuing the Amiens battle past the point of initial success, as had been done so many times in the past, the Allies shifted attention elsewhere.
Battle of Chiset – 1373 – Hundred Years War; Battle of Chojnice (a.k.a. Battle of Conitz) – 1454 – Thirteen Years' War; Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River – 1950 – Korean War; Battle of Chosin Reservoir – 1950 – Korean War; Battle of Chrysopolis – 324 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy; Battle of Ciudad Real – 1809 – Napoleonic Wars