Post by chris on May 4, 2010 12:01:35 GMT -8
April 5, 1915, 95 years ago....France - French army launches an offensive to destroy the German defenders in the St. Mihiel salient.
April 8, 1915, 95 years ago....War at Sea - Threat to Allied commerce ends when the surface raider, Kronprinz Wilhelm is interned at Newport News, Virginia.
April 11, 1915, 95 years ago....Mesopotamia and Persia - Turkish attack on Basra is repelled by British forces under the command of Sir John Nixon.
April 21 - 30, 1915, 95 years ago....Poland - Preparations begin for a combined German and Austro-Hungarian offensive in Galicia...Caucasus and Armenia - Armenian uprising seizes the city of Van from Turkish forces. The Armenians hold the city until the arrival of the Russian army in May....Austria-Hungary - Ration cards are issued for "War Bread".
April 22, 1915, 95 years ago....Campaigns in Flanders - Second Battle of Ypres begins as the German 4th Army launches an attack using chlorine gas for the first time with devastating effect following a brief but heavy artillery barrage. Two rapidly retreating French divisions left a 5 mile gap to the left of the Canadian First Division's position. The Germans captured the villages of Langemarck and Pilckem.
April 25, 1915, 95 years ago....Land operations on Gallipoli - Australian and New Zealand troops land at Anzac Cove. The 15,000 troops failed to gain the high ground at Sari Bair before it was occupied by Turkish reinforcements. British troops landed at cape Helles. Turkish machine guns inflicted heavy casualties to disembarking British troops at the Clyde river landing.
April 26, 1915, 95 years ago...Italy - Italy, in the hopes of gaining territory from Austria-Hungary, enters into a secret treaty with Britain, France and Russia to break from neutrality to join the war on the side of the Triple Entente.
April 28, 1915, 95 years ago....Land operations on Gallipoli - The British at Cape Helles engage Turkish forces in a bloody encounter known as the First Battle of Krithia. The Allies are only able to advance a few hundred feet, as fresh Turkish reinforcements are fed into the battle.
April 29, 1915, 95 years ago....Land operations on Gallipoli - Despite a series of Allied advances from Cape Helles towards Krithia, none of the initial Allied objectives were accomplished.
April 8, 1915, 95 years ago....War at Sea - Threat to Allied commerce ends when the surface raider, Kronprinz Wilhelm is interned at Newport News, Virginia.
April 11, 1915, 95 years ago....Mesopotamia and Persia - Turkish attack on Basra is repelled by British forces under the command of Sir John Nixon.
April 21 - 30, 1915, 95 years ago....Poland - Preparations begin for a combined German and Austro-Hungarian offensive in Galicia...Caucasus and Armenia - Armenian uprising seizes the city of Van from Turkish forces. The Armenians hold the city until the arrival of the Russian army in May....Austria-Hungary - Ration cards are issued for "War Bread".
April 22, 1915, 95 years ago....Campaigns in Flanders - Second Battle of Ypres begins as the German 4th Army launches an attack using chlorine gas for the first time with devastating effect following a brief but heavy artillery barrage. Two rapidly retreating French divisions left a 5 mile gap to the left of the Canadian First Division's position. The Germans captured the villages of Langemarck and Pilckem.
April 25, 1915, 95 years ago....Land operations on Gallipoli - Australian and New Zealand troops land at Anzac Cove. The 15,000 troops failed to gain the high ground at Sari Bair before it was occupied by Turkish reinforcements. British troops landed at cape Helles. Turkish machine guns inflicted heavy casualties to disembarking British troops at the Clyde river landing.
April 26, 1915, 95 years ago...Italy - Italy, in the hopes of gaining territory from Austria-Hungary, enters into a secret treaty with Britain, France and Russia to break from neutrality to join the war on the side of the Triple Entente.
April 28, 1915, 95 years ago....Land operations on Gallipoli - The British at Cape Helles engage Turkish forces in a bloody encounter known as the First Battle of Krithia. The Allies are only able to advance a few hundred feet, as fresh Turkish reinforcements are fed into the battle.
April 29, 1915, 95 years ago....Land operations on Gallipoli - Despite a series of Allied advances from Cape Helles towards Krithia, none of the initial Allied objectives were accomplished.