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  • second battle of ypres

    second battle of ypres
    Second battle of Ypres
    Second Battle of Ypres, (April 22–May 25, 1915), second of three costly battles in World War I at Ypres (now Ieper), in western Flanders. The battle marked the Germans’ first use of poison gas as a weapon. Although the gas attack opened a wide hole in the Allied line, the Germans failed to exploit that advantage.
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  • The first battle of Marne

    The first battle of Marne
    The First Battle of the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914. The German army invaded France with a plan for winning the war in 40 days by occupying Paris and destroying the French and British armies. The Germans had initial successes in August. They were victorious in the Battles of Mons and the Frontiers and overran a large area of northern France and Belgium.
  • the first battle of Ypres

    the first battle of Ypres
    The First Battle of Ypres (French: Première Bataille des Flandres; German: Erste Flandernschlacht 19 October – 22 November 1914) was a battle of the First World War, fought on the Western Front around Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium. The battle was part of the First Battle of Flanders, in which German, French, and Belgian armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fought from Arras in France to Nieuwpoort (Nieuport) on the Belgian coast, from 10 October to mid-November.
  • the second battle of marne

    the second battle of marne
    Second battle of the Marne
    Following the success of his four major offensives in France from March to June 1918, the chief of the German supreme command, General Erich Ludendorff, conceived another offensive as a diversion to draw French troops away from the Flanders front, against which he planned to direct his final decisive offensive. In the diversionary attack, he intended to capture Reims and split the French armies.
  • Avery squeakless mouse determination of pneumococci from sputum

    Avery squeakless mouse determination of pneumococci from sputum
    Part of the avery squeakless mouse determination of pneumococci from sputum
    This was an experiment that used animal testing on mice to see if there was a way to treat people who had been hit with gas
  • Roy Crowdy Avery sails to france

    Roy Crowdy Avery sails to france
    Had arrived at a place that all the dissipated persians go to recover Roy Crowdy Avery sailed to france to go to a medical center.
  • Roy Crowdy Avery gets drafted to a new group

    Roy Crowdy Avery gets drafted to a new group
    Sept 1917 the draft board took him to a new group to go to a general medical center in Dijion He had been drafted to a different group within the military and had been taken to a new medical center.
  • Medical raid

    Medical raid
    April 30 1918, was awakened at midnight when all hell broke loose in an invasion of his sector He had waked up at midnight due to gunfire, mortars, and ect. He was going through a madical camp raid.
  • Roy Crowdy Avery sails to Colbenz Germany

    Roy Crowdy Avery sails to Colbenz Germany
    Sailed to Colbenz Germany with the army of occupation After he sailed to France he later sailed to Colbenz Germany to do further duties.
  • the treaty of Versailles

    the treaty of Versailles
    The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers. It was signed in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the war.