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==[[1914]] (Sunday)==
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*{{WF}} [[Belgium]]: French cavalry in Belgium.▼
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*{{EF}} [[East Prussia]]: Russian First Army advancing.▼
|'''Western Front'''
*{{NO}} {{HMS|Birmingham}}, cruiser, sinks German submarine U15.▼
▲*{{WF}} [[Belgium]]: |French cavalry in [[Belgium]].
*{{PO}} [[Germany]], by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected.▼
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|'''Eastern Front'''
▲*{{EF}} |[[East Prussia]]: Russian First Army advancing.
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|'''Naval and Overseas Operations'''
▲*{{NO}} |{{HMS|Birmingham}}, cruiser, sinks German submarine U15.
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|'''Political'''
▲*{{PO}} |[[Germany]], by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected.
|}
 
==[[1915]] (Monday)==
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*{{HF}} [[Zeppelin]] [[air raid]] on Goole, East Riding and Dover begins. One airship is destroyed at [[Dunkirk]]. ▼
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*{{WF}} British recapture [[trench]]es at [[Hooge]]. French air-raid on Saarbrücken.▼
|'''Western Front'''
*{{EF}} [[Osovyets]] evacuated and destroyed by Russians. Night attack on [[Kovna]] fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack. Germans advance east of [[Warsaw]].▼
▲*|{{HFtb}} [[Zeppelin]] [[air raid]] on Goole, East Riding and [[Dover]] begins. One airship is destroyed at [[Dunkirk]].
*{{SF}} Heavy [[Anzac]] losses; Turks getting stronger.▼
▲*|{{WFtb}} British recapture [[trench]]es at [[Hooge]]. French [[air- raid]] on Saarbrücken.
*{{AE}} Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened. Turkish attacks at [[Olti]] and Passin ([[Armenia]]) repulsed. 255,000 Armenians from [[Van]] migrate into [[Transcaucasia]].▼
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*{{NO}} Gadji ([[Cameroons]]) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations. {{HMS|Lynx}}, destroyer, mined and sunk. Turkish battleship ''Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa'' torpedoed by British submarine.▼
|'''Eastern Front'''
*{{PO}} Italian Consuls throughout [[Turkey]] preparing to leave.▼
|{{tb}} [[Osovyets]] evacuated and destroyed by Russians.
 
▲*|{{EFtb}} [[Osovyets]] evacuated and destroyed by Russians. Night attack on [[Kovna]] fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack. Germans advance east of [[Warsaw]].
==References/notes==
|{{tb}} Germans advance east of [[Warsaw]].
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|'''Southern Front'''
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▲*{{SF}} |Heavy [[Anzac]] losses; Turks getting stronger.
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|'''Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres'''
|{{tb}} Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened.
▲*|{{AEtb}} Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened. Turkish attacks at [[Olti]] and Passin ([[Armenia]]) repulsed. 255,000 Armenians from [[Van]] migrate into [[Transcaucasia]].
|{{tb}} 255,000 Armenians from [[Van]] migrate into [[Transcaucasia]].
|-
|'''Naval and Overseas Operations'''
|{{tb}} Gadji ([[Cameroons]]) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations.
|{{tb}} {{HMS|Lynx}}, destroyer, mined and sunk.
▲*|{{NO}} Gadji ([[Cameroons]]) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations. {{HMS|Lynxtb}}, destroyer, mined and sunk. Turkish battleship ''Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa'' torpedoed by British submarine.
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|'''Political'''
▲*{{PO}} |Italian Consuls throughout [[Turkey]] preparing to leave.
|}
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[[Category:Great War events in August|09]]
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