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The Battle of Charleroi, another of the frontier battles, was an action taking place 12–23 August 1914. The battle was joined by the French Fifth Army, advancing north towards the River Sambre, and the German Second and Third armies, moving southwest through Belgium. The Fifth army was meant to join the Third and Fourth armies in their attack ...
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The Americans launched a series of costly frontal assaults that finally broke through the main German defenses (the Krimhilde Stellung of the Hindenburg Line) between October 14–17 (the Battle of Montfaucon (French: Bataille de Montfaucon)). During the Battle of Montfaucon Missouri and Kansas National Guard soldiers were the first U.S. troops ...
Pages in category "Battles of World War I involving the United States" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
B. Battle for Baby 700; Fall of Baghdad (1917) Battle of Baku; Battle of Banjo; Second Battle of Bapaume; Battle of Basra (1914) Battle of El Tor (1915) Battle of Bazentin Ridge
General Pershing authorized the results of the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, the greatest battle in American history up to that time, in his Final Report: "Between 26 September and 11 November, 22 American and 4 French divisions, on the front extending from southeast of Verdun to the Argonne Forest, had engaged and decisively beaten 47 different ...
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 ...
On 22 April 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans (violating the Hague Convention) used chlorine gas for the first time on the Western Front. Several types of gas soon became widely used by both sides and though it never proved a decisive, battle-winning weapon, it became one of the most feared and best-remembered horrors of the war.