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The sets of armies joined battle on both sides. General Pierre Ruffey 's Third Army to the south and Fernand de Langle de Cary 's Fourth Army to the north, fighting Germany's Fourth, led by Duke Albrecht, and Fifth army, led by Crown Prince Wilhelm. [6] The German troops started moving through the forest on 19 August.
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.
Bergmann Offensive, first military engagement in the Caucasus of the First World War. November 3 Politics: Montenegro declares war on the Ottoman Empire. African, East African: Battle of Kilimanjaro: November 3–5 African, East African: Von Lettow-Vorbeck's German colonial forces defeat the British at the Battle of Tanga, German East Africa ...
Indecisive. 10 August 1904. Battle of the Yellow Sea. Russo-Japanese War. Imperial Japanese Navy. Imperial Russian Navy. Japanese victory. 27–28 May 1905. Battle of Tsushima.
United States Navy operations during World War I began on April 6, 1917, after the formal declaration of war on the German Empire. The United States Navy focused on countering enemy U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea while convoying men and supplies to France and Italy. Because of United States's late entry into the war ...
8–10 July Battle of Someri – Finnish and German gunboats engage and sink Soviet gunboats in the Gulf of Finland. 17–31 July Convoy ON 113 – Wolfpack intercepts Allied convoy, sinking five merchant ships. 24 July-8 August Convoy ON 115 – Wolfpack intercepts Allied convoy, sinks three merchant ships and loses one U-boat.
World War I[ j ] or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in Europe and the Middle East, as well as in parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by ...
S. Battle of St Quentin Canal. Battle of Saint-Mihiel. Battle of the Sambre (1918) Battle of Soissons (1918) Second Battle of the Somme. Order of battle for the Spring Offensive.