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3 July

From The Great War 1914-1918

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1915

1916

  • Template:WF - Fierce fighting continues; British capture La Boiselle and part of Ovillers. French capture Chapitre Wood, Feuillères, Buscourt, Flaucourt; also Assevillers to the South. Germans gain and lose Damloup work (Verdun). North of Ancre actions indecisive. 12,300 prisoners to date.
  • Template:EF - Battle of Baranovichi continues south of Vilna. Russian sea-attack on German lines near Riga.
  • Template:SF - French air-raid on Sofia from Salonika.
  • Template:AE - Russians again resume offensive in Armenia, west of Erzerum.
  • Template:NO - British advance in East Africa, in region between Lake Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza.
  • Template:PO - Report of Royal Commission on the causes of the Irish Rebellion issued. Russo-Japanese treaty re the Far East signed.

1917

1918

  • Template:WF - French advance north of Aisne between Autrèches on east and Moulin sous Touvent on west; 1,000 prisoners.
  • Template:EF - Germans prepare to advance on Murman railway. New Provisional Government established at Vladivostok.
  • Template:NO - Retreat of Germans at Nhamacurra.
  • Template:PO - Proclamation of Sinn Fein as dangerous organisation. Death of Lord Rhondda (British Food Controller). Death of Mohammed V., Sultan of Turkey; succeeded by Mohammed VI (Vahid-ed-Din).

References/notes

Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)

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