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The Battle of Liège was the first battle of the war, and could be considered a moral victory for the allies, as the heavily outnumbered Belgians held out against the German Army for 12 days. From 5 to 16 August 1914, the Belgians successfully resisted the numerically superior Germans, and inflicted surprisingly heavy losses on their aggressors.
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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."
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)
List of battles before 301; List of battles 301–1300; List of battles 1301–1600; List of battles 1601–1800; List of battles 1801–1900; List of battles 1901–2000; List of battles in the 21st century
The United States campaigns in World War I began after American entry in the war in early April 1917. The American Expeditionary Force (AEF) served on the Western Front , under General John J. Pershing , and engaged in 13 official military campaigns between 1917 and 1918, for which campaign streamers were designated.
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; Battle of Arleux; Battle ...
Battle of Kiev (1941), a major Axis victory over the Soviets during the Second World War; Battle of Kiev (1943), a Soviet victory in the Second World War; Battle of Killiecrankie – 1689 – Jacobite rising of 1689; Siege of Kimberley – 1899–1900 – Second Boer War; Battle of Kings Mountain – 1780 – part of American Revolution; Battle ...