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General Joseph Gallieni, the military governor of Paris in at the start of World War I in 1914. The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 saw patriotic demonstrations on the Place de la Concorde and at the Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord as the mobilized soldiers departed for the front.
The Battle of Coronel was a First World War naval battle that led to an Imperial German Navy victory over the Royal Navy on 1 November 1914, off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel.
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Chile from its birth in the first decades of the 19th century to the present. Chilean victory : in case of being an international war or that has an international scope due to the quality of the belligerents.
The following lists events that happened during 1914 in Chile. Incumbents ... 1 November – World War I ... 7 May – Radomiro Tomic (d. 1992) [1] 11 May ...
It is a cultural centre owned and administered by the foundation of the same name, named after Domingo de Toro Herrera , a politician, engineer and soldier of the Chilean Army, and a veteran of the conflict who later held political positions and made other contributions to his country, in addition to having been the brother of Emilia de Toro ...
A bomb squad and beeswax were among the items that were used in the extraction of the historic time capsule, which included historical documents, film and a 1921 Kansas City Star article.
Chile hired a French military training mission in 1858, [4]: 129 and the Chilean legation in Berlin was instructed to find a training mission during the War of the Pacific in 1881. But large-scale emulation of the Prussian Army began in 1886 with the appointment of Captain Emil Körner , a graduate of the renowned Kriegsakademie in Berlin.
List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardennes; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders; List of World War I Memorials and Cemeteries in Lorraine; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the area of the St Mihiel salient; List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in the Somme