October 30, 1918

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1918, Allies, armistice, Armistice of Mudros, Battle of Sharqat, Black Sea, Bosphorus, Dardanelles, fortress, Great Britain, Iraq, Kalat Shergat, Ottoman Army, Ottoman Empire, prisoners of war, surrender, Tigris, Turkey

Surrender of the Turkish Army on the Tigris after a battle near Kalat Shergat lasting six days; 7,000 prisoners. Armistice with Turkey agreed on, terms including free passage for Allied Fleets through Bosporus to Black Sea; occupation of forts in Dardanelles and Bosporus necessary to secure their passage, and immediate repatriation of all Allied prisoners of war.

September 14, 1918

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1918, Allemant, Allies, Armenian-Azerbaijani War, Azerbaijan, Baku, Battle of Baku, evacuation, Finland, Finnish Civil War, France, Germany, Great Britain, Helsingfors, Helsinki, Hundred Days Offensive, Laffaux, Moulin de Laffaux, Murmansk, Ottoman Empire, prisoners of war, Russia, Russian Civil War, Turkey

French carry Allemant and Laffaux Mill with 2,500 prisoners. German Minister at Helsingfors communicates an offer that German troops should not attack in Eastern Karelia provided Allies withdrew their troops from Northern Russia and the Murman coast. Turks attack at Baku; British evacuate the town.

September 1, 1918

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1918, Armenian-Azerbaijani War, Australia, Azerbaijan, Baku, Battle of Baku, Beaulencourt, Bouchavesnes, British Empire, Bullecourt, Flanders, France, Great Britain, Heudecourt, Hundred Days Offensive, Lys, Moeuvres, Neuve Eglise, Nieuwkerke, Ottoman Empire, Peronne, prisoners of war, Rancourt, Russia, Sailly-Saillisel, Second Battle of Arras, Second Battle of the Somme, St Pierre Vaast Wood, Turkey

Fall of Péronne; Sailly-Saillisel taken; on the left, British take Bouchavesnes and Rancourt and reach western outskirts of St. Pierre Vaast Wood; 2,000 prisoners. Bullecourt and Heudecourt again taken, and Beaulencourt and the high ground at Mœuvres. On the Lys front Neuve Eglise captured. Turkish attack at Baku.

June 18, 1918

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1918, Aleksandar Malinov, Austria-Hungary, Batumi, Black Sea, Bulgaria, Bulgarian Prime Minister, Capo Sile, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Mozambique, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Piave, Portuguese East Africa, Portuguese Empire, Poti, prisoners of war, Reims, Russia, Second Battle of the Piave River, Vasil Radoslavov

Further Austrian attempts to cross the Piave repulsed; the river in flood and many bridges washed away; Italians retake Capo Sile and more than 9,000 prisoners to date; German attack in Reims sector repulsed. Announced 3,000 German troops landed at Poti, north of Batum. Von Lettow Vorbeck moving south in Mozambique and approaching the coast. Resignation of M. Radoslavoff, Bulgarian Premier; succeeded by M. Malinoff.

April 27, 1918

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1918, Baghdad, Battle of the Lys, Belgium, cavalry, Flanders, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Kars, Kifri, Mosul, occupation, Ottoman Empire, prisoners of war, Russia, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Turkey, Voormezeele

Germans take Voormezeele, but are driven out again. British advance in Mesopotamia on the Baghdad-Mosul road; Kifri taken; cavalry pursuit captures 538 prisoners. Kars reported taken by the Turks.

April 13, 1918

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1918, Battle of the Lys, Batum, Batumi, Belgium, Flanders, France, Georgia, Germany, Meteren, Neuve Eglise, occupation, Ottoman Empire, Russia, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Turkey, Wulverghem

Germans driven out of Neuve Eglise; attacks from Meteren to Wulverghem defeated. Fall of Batum to the Turks.

April 6, 1918

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1918, Albert, Ardahan, Armenia, Aveluy Wood, Batum, Batumi, Chauny, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, occupation, Operation Michael, Ottoman Empire, prisoners of war, Russia, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Turkey

British retake Aveluy Wood, north of Albert, with 140 prisoners. French withdrawal near Chauny; Germans claim 1,400 prisoners. Turks announce occupation of Ardahan and movement on Batum.

March 11, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Armenia, Armentieres, Australia, Belgium, British Empire, Erzurum, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Jerusalem, Laventie, Messines, Nablus, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Paris, Passchendaele, Portugal, Russia, Shechem, Turkey

Australian raids near Messines. German raids at Passchendaele Ridge, in Armentières district, and against the Portuguese, near Laventie, defeated. Further advance astride the Jerusalem-Shechem road. Turks recapture Erzrum after a stern defence by Armenians. German air raid on Paris by several squadrons of aeroplanes; four machines brought down.

February 24, 1918

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1918, Allies, Austria-Hungary, Croatia, Dorpat, England, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, Indian Ocean, Japan, London, Motono Ichiro, Operation Faustschlag, Ottoman Empire, Pacific, peace, Pola, Royal Navy, Russia, sinking, SMS Wolf, Tartu, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Trebizond, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Zhitomir

Germans take Dorpat with 3,000 prisoners, and in the Ukraine, reach Zhitomir; Lenin and the Bolshevists accept the German terms. Turks recapture Trebizond. German raider Wolf announced returned to Pola after a voyage of 15 months; Admiralty issues list of 11 vessels presumably sunk by the Wolf in Indian and Pacific Oceans. Viscount Motono‘s statement that if Russia concludes a separate peace “Japan will take steps of the most decided and most adequate character to meet the occasion.” Inter-Allied Labour Conference at Westminster publishes memorandum on war aims.

April 30, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, bombardment, civilian casualties, evacuation, Frederick Stanley Maude, Iraq, Jebel Hamrin, Mus, Mush, Netherlands, Ottoman Empire, Russia, Schouwen, Sebeldt, Shatt-el-Adhaim, Turkey, Zierikee

General Maude defeats 13th Turkish Army Corps at the gorge of the Shatt-el-Adhaim, in the Jebel Hamrin. Turks announce Russians evacuate Mush. Zierikzee, at the mouth of the Sebeldt, bombarded, presumably by hostile aeroplane; three people killed.