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The Riga offensive, also called the Battle of Jugla or the Battle of Riga (German: Schlacht um Riga), took place in early September 1917 and was last major campaign on the Eastern Front of World War I before the Russian Provisional Government and its army began disintegrating. The battle was fought between Oskar von Hutier 's German Eighth Army ...
The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive, [6] was the military campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944. The result of the series of battles was the isolation and encirclement of the Army Group North in the Courland Pocket and ...
Battle of the Menin Road Ridge (Second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres). Costa Rica severs relations with Germany. [ 24 ] Battle of Polygon Wood (Second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres). Battle of Ramadi, Mesopotamia. (Details) Battle of Broodseinde (Second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres).
The Allied counteroffensive, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, began on 8 August 1918, with the Battle of Amiens. The battle involved over 400 tanks and 120,000 British, Dominion, and French troops, and by the end of its first day a gap 24 kilometres (15 mi) long had been created in the German lines.
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 Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I (‹See Tfd› German: Ostfront; Romanian: Frontul de răsărit;), for Russia Second Patriotic War[ 23 ][ 24 ] (Russian: Вторая Отечественная Война), was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on ...
Operation Faustschlag. The Operation Faustschlag ("Operation Fist Punch"), also known as the Eleven Days' War, [2][3] was a Central Powers offensive in World War I. It was the last major offensive on the Eastern Front. Russian forces were unable to put up any serious resistance due to the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Russian ...
European diplomatic alignments shortly before the war. The Russian Empire 's entry into World War I unfolded gradually in the days leading up to July 28, 1914. The sequence of events began with Austria-Hungary 's declaration of war on Serbia, a Russian ally. In response, Russia issued an ultimatum to Vienna via Saint Petersburg, warning Austria ...