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The Attack of the Dead Men, or the Battle of Osowiec Fortress, was a battle of World War I that took place at Osowiec Fortress (now northeastern Poland), on August 6, 1915. The incident received its grim name from the bloodied, corpse-like appearance of the Russian combatants after they were bombarded with a mixture of poison gases , chlorine ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli (Turkish: Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.
1915 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1915th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 915th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1915, the ...
Ralph DePalma (1882–1956) wins the 1915 Indianapolis 500 on May 31. May 6 – Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop . May 7 – The RMS Lusitania is sunk on passage from New York to Britain by a German U-boat , killing 1,198.
The Battle of Festubert (15–25 May 1915) was an attack by the British army in the Artois region of France on the western front during World War I.The offensive formed part of a series of attacks by the French Tenth Army and the British First Army in the Second Battle of Artois (3 May – 18 June 1915).
This photo is commonly mistaken as taking place during the 1914 Christmas truce. It is actually from 25 December 1915 near Thessaloniki, Greece. It shows British officers playing other ranks of the British 26th Divisional Ammunition Train. [29] [30] Many accounts of the truce involve one or more football matches played in no man's land.
Battle of Nasiriyah (1915) National Protection War; Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign; Battle of the Nek; Battle of Neuve Chapelle; Battle of Ngaundere; Battle of Nogales (1915) Action off Noordhinder Bank; Military operations in North Africa during World War I; Notre Dame de Lorette; Siege of Novogeorgievsk