CONTENTS
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Remembering Significant
Events of the Great War
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1914
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Assassination in Sarajevo
June 28, 1914
The July Crisis of 1914
June 28 - August 4, 1914
Battle of Tannenberg
August 26-30, 1914
First Battle of the Marne
September 6-10 1914
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Turkey Joins the Central Powers
October 29, 1914
British Blockade of Germany Starts
November 2, 1914
Christmas Truce
December 24-31, 1914
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1915
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First Zeppelin Raid on London
January 15, 1915
Initial Naval Assault at
the Dardanelles
February 19, 1915
Fall of Fortress of Przemsyl
March 22, 1915
1st Gas on the Western Front,
2nd Battle of Ypres
April 22, 1915
Lusitania Sunk
May 7, 1915
First Battle of the Isonzo
June 29, 1915
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German Defeat in Southwest Africa
July 9, 1915
Second Landing at Gallipoli:
Suvla Bay
August 7, 1915
German Defense Proves Dominant in
Champagne & Artois
September 1915
Central Powers Invade Serbia
October 7, 1915
The Battle of Ctesiphon
November 22-25, 1915
Douglas Haig Named British
Field Commander
December 16, 1915
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1916
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German aces Max Immelmann and
Oswald Boelcke, First Aviators
Awarded Pour le Mérite
January 12, 1915
Battle of Verdun Begins
February 21, 1916
Russian Defeat at Battle of
Lake Naroch
March 18-21, 1916
British Empire Forces
Surrender at Kut
April 29, 1916
Battle of Jutland
May 31, 1916
Brusilov Offensive Opens
June 4, 1916
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Battle of the Somme Begins
July 1, 1916
Gorizia Captured During 6th
Battle of Isonzo
August 8, 1916
First Tanks Go Into Battle
During Battle of the Somme
September 15, 1916
Fort Douaumont Recaptured
During Battle of Verdun
October 24, 1916
Emperor Franz Josef Dies
Sixty-Six Year Reign Ends
November 21, 1916
Bucharest Falls
December 5, 1916
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1917
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Germany Resumes Unrestricted
Submarine Warfare
January 31, 1917
British Army Captures Kut-al-Amara
February, 1917
Tsar Nicholas II Abdicates
March 15, 1917
America Declares War
April 6, 1917
Petain Named French
Commander-in-Chief
May 15, 1917
Battle of Messines
Opens Flanders Campaign
June 7, 1917
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Third Ypres
Battle of Passchendaele Begins
July 31, 1917
Papal Peace Initiative
August 1, 1917
Breakthrough Techniques Tested
at Battle of Riga
September 1, 1917
Battle of Caporetto Begins
October 24, 1917
Battle of Cambrai Commences
Great War's Largest Tank Action
November 20, 1917
Russian-German Armistice Signed
December 15, 1917
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ON-LINE NOW
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- Château-Thierry
- Contributed by David Homsher
- HEROES, VILLAINS AND GARGOYLES
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Beast of Berlin?
- Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
- Great Captain or Donkey?
- The War Service of Adolf Hitler
- Setting the record straight on the Great War's most notorious veteran.
- How A Right Can Make A Wrong: Hitler's Fateful Encounter with Pvt. Henry Tandey, VC
- Contributed by John Godl
- The Lawrence of Arabia Factfile by A.N. Wilson
- Great content from the official biographer of T.E. Lawrence.
- Searching for Gavrilo Princep
- From Smithsonian Magazine.
- Sergeant Alvin York
- Contributed by Dr. Michael Birdwell.
- Canada's Unknown Soldier Comes Home, May 2000
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- The United Kingdom's Unknown Warrior
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- Gabriele D'Annunzio and the Vittoriale
- A Hero So Unconventional, He Built His Own Memorial
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Manfred von Richthofen
- Paragon of Excellence [Link]
- Nurse Edith Cavell
- Fragile Martyr
- Unknown Soldier: United States
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- Rasputin: Master of Darkness
- From Britain's Channel 4.
- WIPERS: FROM THE SALIENT
- Moina Michael and the Red Poppy
- From The Great War, 1914-1918
- The Red Poppy
- WWI Symbol with Background on John McCrae's Poem
In Flanders Fields
- TOC H: The Story of Tubby Clayton and Talbot House
- Presented by the Western Front Association.
- Hell Fire Corner
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Last Post at the Menin Gate
- 8PM, Every Night of the Year
- ON THE SOMME
- The Newfoundland Regiment at the Somme
- One of the War's Great Tragedies Documented at the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website
- Last Letter of Mayo Lind
- Lind died With Most of the Newfoundland Regiment At the First Day of the Somme
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July 1, 1916: First Day on the Somme
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- Delville Wood: Gethsemane for the South African Brigade
- From I.S. Uys and the South African Military History Society
- Leaning Virgin of Albert
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- VERDUN
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Questionable Restoration Work at Verdun
- Before and after studies of work now being done. New Material December 2001.
- Verdun's Voie Sacree: Myth and Reality
- From
- The Bayonet Trench of Verdun
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- The Lafayette Escadrille Over Verdun
- Contemporary Account
- FROM GALLIPOLI
- The Man and His Donkey: ANZAC Hero John Simpson Kirkpatrick
- From the website.
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Ataturk: Great War Hero and Founder of Modern Turkey
- Well done site from Turkey in English.
- ANZAC Day
-  April 25th
- OTHER TRANSCENDENT PLACES
- Monte Grappa: Italy's Thermopylae
- From Rich Galli
- The Heritage of Belleau Wood
- New Links and Photos
- No Man's Land
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- LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND POETRY
- Poetry at War
- James S. Robbin's select anthology of poems of the Great War. From National Review On-Line
- Words of War: Terms and Expressions Popularized, 1914-1918
- Expanded January 2005.
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Words of War: British War Slang
- From the Old Contemptibles website.
- Ernst Junger in Hyperspace by John King
- Outstanding Site on the Storm Trooper who became one of the 20th Century's greatest writers.
- Ernest Hemingway's War Poetry
- Contributed by Richard Galli.
- Great War Poems of Dangerous Dan McGrew's Creator
- At the War Veteran's Poetry Archive
- MISCELLANEOUS
- Then and Now on the Western Front
- From Western Front Traveler Tom Gudmestad
- The Variety of World
War I Monuments
- A Photo Album by Sidney J. Clark, New Material 22 July 2004
- Ship of Fools? Henry Ford's Peace Ship
- From the Kansas University History Site
- Recalling the Great War
- An introductory guide on how the War has been remembered.
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Educational Slide Shows
- From the Western Front Association - USA Branch. Designed to teach the history, relevance and heritage of the War. On-line now: Veterans of the War Who Shaped the 20th Century; Women of the Great War; Virtual Tours of the Somme and Verdun; The View from Atop Thiepval Memorial; The Grim Side of the Great War; and Who Were the Dougboys?
- The Marne Taxis by Leon Loupy
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- World War I Postcards
- Contributed by Sarah Phillips
- The Story of Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
- At Hell Fire Corner
- Big Bertha
- How She Got Her Wicked Reputation
- The Case of the Elusive Angel of Mons
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- Christmas Truce of 1914
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