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The Austro-Hungarian First Army defeats the Russian Fourth Army. [32] August 24 – 26 Western: Action of Elouges: Western: Battle of the Trouée de Charmes, a phase of the Battle of Lorraine. August 24 – September 7 Western: Siege of Maubeuge. The Germans besiege and capture the Maubeuge Fortress. August 24 – September 5 Western
As soon as the war began, the major nations issued "color books" containing documents (mostly from July 1914) that helped justify their actions.A color book is a collection of diplomatic correspondence and other official documents published by a government for educational or political reasons, and to promote the government position on current or past events.
The British Expeditionary Force order of battle 1914, as originally despatched to France in August and September 1914, at the beginning of World War I.The British Army prior to World War I traced its origins to the increasing demands of imperial expansion together with inefficiencies highlighted during the Crimean War, which led to the Cardwell and Childers Reforms of the late 19th century.
September 10, 1914 (Thursday) German forces retreated from Verdun to the Aisne River in northeastern France. [91] Siege of Antwerp – Belgian cavalry reached the city of Leuven, Belgium. [92] Rebel forces captured the city of Durrës, capital of Albania, a week after Prince William abdicated the throne. [93] The units that would eventually ...
Withdrawal and the Russian Revolution begins (March–November 1917) By the end of 1916, Russian casualties totalled nearly five million killed, wounded or captured, with major urban areas affected by food shortages and high prices. In March 1917, Tsar Nicholas ordered the military to forcibly suppress a wave of strikes in Petrograd but the ...
The diplomatic history of World War I covers the non-military interactions among the major players during World War I. For the domestic histories of participants see home front during World War I. For a longer-term perspective see international relations (1814–1919) and causes of World War I. For the following (post-war) era see international ...
The Allies, the Entente or the Triple Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th ...
Septemberprogramm. The Septemberprogramm ( German: [zɛpˈtɛmbɐpʁoˌɡʁam], literally "September Program") was a memorandum authorized by Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg of the German Empire at the beginning of World War I (1914–18). It was drafted on 9 September 1914 by the Chancellor's private secretary, Kurt Riezler, in ...