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Battle of Liege
The Battle of Liege signified the first land battle of the war.Something of a moral victory for the Allies as represented by Belgium, the Battle of Liege ran for twelve days from 5-16 August 1914.Brussels itself was captured without resistance by General von Kluck of the First Army on 20 August. -
Invassion of Lorraine
The French invasion of Lorraine formed one of the major objectives of the French pre-war offensive strategy against Germany.One of the Battles of the Frontiers, the Invasion of Lorraine (also known as the Battle of Morhange-Sarrebourg) began with the French First and Second Armies entering the city on 14 August 1914.The French line held the troops gathered for Rupprecht's offensive - which comprised 26 divisions of men -would have been put to far greater use at the First Battle of Marne -
The battles of the Marne
The First Battle of the Marne was conducted between 6-12 September 1914.As the German armies neared Paris, the French capital prepared itself for a siege. The defending French forces (Fifth and Sixth Armies) and the British - were at the point of exhaustion, having retreated continuously for 10-12 days under repeated German attack until, directed by Joseph Joffre, the French Commander-in-Chief, they reached the south of the River Marne. -
First battle of the Masurian Lakes
Conducted between 9-14 September 1914, the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes (of two, the second in February 1915) was the second victory of the war by the Germans over the Russian army, the first occurring at Tannenberg in late August.As a consequence of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes - although the former battle was a much clearer cut victory than the second - Hindenburg was hailed as a hero in Germany, subsequently succeeding Falkenhayn as Chief of the German Staff in late summer 1916. -
Defense of the Suez Canal
1915 saw the ever-escalating First World War spread to Egypt and Palestine. Sited in the region was the all-important Suez Canal, controlled by the British.Although the Turks never again attempted to seize control of the Suez they did however succeed in tying up an inordinately large British defence intended to protect the canal against future expeditions. This British force could (and would) have been placed to better use for the Dardanelles campaign. -
Attempt to force the Narrows
Having paused to consolidate following the clear failure of the previous month's attempts to batter the Turkish protective fortresses, a further naval effort was briefly launched on 18 March in an attempt to break through The Narrows.The Straits - 65km in length and 7km in width (aside from 'The Narrows') were overlooked by steep and heavily fortified cliffs: the Gallipoli peninsula to the northwest and the coast of Asia Minor to the south. -
Battle of Scimitar Hill
The Battle of Scimitar Hill, which ran alongside the Battle of Hill 60 on 21 August 1915, comprised a last-ditch effort by the Allied force under Mediterranean Commander-in-Chief Sir Ian Hamilton to break north from Anzac Cove and north and east of Suvla Bay, thus linking the 5km distance between the two sectors.Allied casualties in the Scimitar Hill action reached some 5,000, many of which were incurred after British artillery shrapnel resulted in surrounding bush catching fire. -
Arab Revolt
the Arab revolt lasted from 1916-1918. the reason why the allies helped the arab revolt is because they would be crutial in the fight against germany adn the axis powers -
The battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. The casualties from Verdun and the impact the battle had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 in an effort to take German pressure off of the French at Verdun. The Battle of Verdun started on February 21st 1916 and ended on December 16th in 1916. It was to make General Philippe Pétain a hero in France. -
Siege of medina
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the battle of the Somme
Comprising the main Allied attack on the Western Front during 1916, the Battle of the Somme is famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops (one third of them killed) on the first day of the battle, 1 July 1916, which to this day remains a one-day record. The attack was launched upon a 30 kilometre front, from north of the Somme river between Arras and Albert, and ran from 1 July until 18 November, at which point it was called off. -
Battle of Romani
The battle of Romani, fought between 3 and 5 August 1916, finally put a stop to the Turkish threat to the Suez canal and marked the beginning of the British forces' drive out of Egypt and into Palestine. The British defences were sited admist a series of towering sand dunes, 35 kilometres east of the canal, which the Turks tried to outflank to the south early on 4 August. Initially, only the 1st Light Horse Brigade was in position to meet the Turkish attack. -
the battle of Combria
The Battle of Cambrai, launched in November 1917, heralded the first time tanks were used in significant force, a little over a year after they had made their tentative debut at Flers on the Somme in September 1916. By the autumn of 1917 the popular reputation of tank effectiveness had suffered. Aside from their undoubted initial value as a surprise tactic they were deemed to be of limited use in offensive operations, unwieldy and prone to malfunction. -
Capture of Baghdad
Fresh from the triumph of re-capturing Kut-al-Amara in February 1917, British regional Commander-in-Chief Sir Frederick Stanley Maude halted operations at Aziziyeh, awaiting confirmation from London to proceed onwards to Baghdad, less than 70km away. -
Battle of the Boot
On this day in 1917, the so-called Battle of the Boot marks the end of the British army's Samarra Offensive, launched the previous month by Anglo-Indian forces under the regional commander in chief, Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, against the important Turkish railroad at Samarra, some 130 kilometers north of Baghdad, in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). -
battel of Aqaba
Captain Thomas Edward Lawrence of the British Military Intelligence Department brought an unusual background to his meetings with Prince Feisal in Arabia: He was an Oxford-trained archeologist who had lived and worked in Arab lands and spoke some Arabic. Some accounts claim that Lawrence brought a bold plan to those meetings: He proposed that a troop of Arabs make their way across the desert and attack Akaba — a port on a gulf of the Red Sea, now part of Jordan — from the land side. -
the battle of the ypres
After the German advance through Belgium and eastern France was curtailed by a decisive Allied victory in the Battle of the Marne in late September 1914, the so-called "Race to the Sea" began, as each army attempted to outflank the other on their way northwards, hastily constructing trench fortifications as they went. The race ended in mid-October at Ypres, the ancient Flemish city with its fortifications guarding the ports of the English Channel and access to the North Sea beyond. -
the battle of the Marnes
After invading neutral Belgium and advancing into northeastern France by the end of August 1914, German forces were nearing Paris, spurred on by punishing victories that forced five French armies into retreat after the Battles of the Frontiers at Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi and Mons. In anticipation of the German attack, the anxious French government appointed the 65-year-old General Joseph-Simon Gallieni as the military governor of Paris. Gallieni. -
battle of Megiddo
During the New Kingdom, the Egyptian empire was expanded to its greatest size. The majority of these expansions were carried out by Thutmose III. Under his rule, Egypt controlled all of Nubia, Egypt, Syria and Palestine. He was the true warrior king, leading 17 campaigns and consolidating his victories by taking hostages, oaths and tribute.
The battle of Megiddo was a turning point in Egypt's imperial history. It was at the battle and siege of Megiddo that Thutmose III conquered Egypt's enemy's -
capture of damascus
Lawrence, an Oxford-educated Arabist born in Tremadoc, Wales, began working for the British army as an intelligence officer in Egypt in 1914. He spent more than a year in Cairo, processing intelligence information. In 1916, he accompanied a British diplomat to Arabia, where Hussein ibn Ali, the emir of Mecca, had proclaimed a revolt against Turkish rule. Lawrence convinced his superiors to aid Hussein's rebellion, and he was sent to join the Arabian army of Hussein's son Faisal as a liaison offi
