August 29, 1918

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1918, Ailette, Bapaume, Battle of the Ailette, Beaulencourt, Charles Mangin, Combles, Fremicourt, Great Britain, Hem, Hundred Days Offensive, Morval, Noyon, Peronne, Second Battle of Arras, Second Battle of Bapaume, Second Battle of Noyon, Second Battle of the Somme, Somme

Fall of Bapaume and Noyon to British and French respectively; British fighting on the line Combles, Morval, Beaulencourt, Frémicourt; south of the Somme they take most of the ground as far as the bend of the river at Péronne with Hem on the north bank. General Mangin’s centre over the Ailette.

August 27, 1918

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1918, Bapaume, Battle of the Scarpe, Bengnatre, Bernafay Wood, Cherisy, Delville Wood, Fontaine-les-Cappy, Fontaine-les-Croisilles, France, Gavrelle, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland Hill, Hundred Days Offensive, Longueval, Marie-Eugene Debeney, Ovillers, Roeux, Roye, Sart Woods, Scarpe, Second Battle of Arras, Second Battle of the Somme, Sensee, Somme, Vermand, Vis-en-Artois

British advance along the whole front, taking Fontaine-les-Cappy south of the Somme, Vermandovillers, Longueval, Delville Wood, and Bernafay Wood, Bengnatre, north-east of Bapaume, Fontaine-les-Croisilles, Chérisy, Vis-en-Artois, and Sart Woods, between the Scarpe and the Sensée, and above the Scarpe, Roeux, Greenland Hill, and Gavrelle. Roye falls to General Débeney‘s Army.

August 25, 1918

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1918, Albania, Albert, Austria-Hungary, Bapaume, Berat, Favreuil, France, Germany, Italy, Le Barque, Le Sars, Mametz, Mametz Wood, Martinpuich, Neuville Vitasse, prisoners of war, Second Battle of Bapaume, Second Battle of the Somme, Warlencourt

Neuville Vitasse and Favreuil carried, and the whole of the road from Albert to Bapaume, with Martinpuich, Le Sars, Warlencourt, Le Barque, Mametz, and Mametz Wood; total prisoners 17,000. Austrians claim recapture of Berat, in Albania.

August 24, 1918

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1918, Albert, Avesnes, Bapaume, Battle of Albert, Biefvillers, Bois de Loupart, France, Germany, Grandcourt, Great Britain, Henin-sur-Cojeul, La Boisselle, Miraumont, Mouquet Farm, Ovillers, Second Battle of Bapaume, Second Battle of the Somme, St Leger, Thiepval

British occupy more high ground south-east of Albert; Thiepval Ridge carried, and La Boisselle, Ovillers, Mouquet Farm, Thiepval, and Grandcourt taken; Miraumont outflanked, Loupart Wood and Biefvillers carried, and outskirts of Bapaume reached at Avesnes; on the extreme left St. Leger and Henin-sur-Cojeul captured.

March 25, 1918

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1916, 1918, Amman, Bapaume, Battle of the Somme, communications, Es Salt, First Battle of Bapaume, First Transjordan attack on Amman, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hejaz, Noyon, Oise, Operation Michael, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Peronne, prisoners of war, railway, Somme, Turkey, weapons

Heavy fighting between Péronne and Bapaume; enemy, pressing on over Somme battleground, reach, near Maricourt, their original line of July, 1916; 45,000 prisoners and over 600 guns claimed to date; Noyon in the Oise Valley evacuated by the French, who hold the left bank of the Oise. British take Es Salt and progress towards the Hedjaz Railway at Amman.

March 24, 1918

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1918, Bapaume, Chauny, Edmund Allenby, First Battle of Bapaume, First Transjordan attack on Amman, France, Germany, Great Britain, Guiscard, Ham, Luneville, Nesle, occupation, Operation Michael, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Peronne, prisoners of war, Somme, Tortille, Turkey, weapons

Fall of Péronne following violent attacks against line of the Tortille; fall of Ham, and the Somme crossed between these two points, but enemy driven back again; British covering Bapaume after heavily repulsing enemy are driven back; fall of Bapaume and of Nesle, Guiscard, and Chauny; 30,000 prisoners and 600 guns claimed to date. German attack on French lines east of Lunéville defeated. Allenby 11 miles east of the Jordan approaching Es Salt.

April 15, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Bapaume, Battle of Arras, Cambrai, France, Frederick Stanley Maude, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Jebel Hamrin, Lagnicourt, Ottoman Empire, peace, Queant, Russia, St Quentin, trenches, Turkey, Villeret

German counter-attack astride the Bapaume-Cambrai road before Quéant fails, except at Lagnicourt, where they gain a brief entry into the British trenches. Villeret, north-west of St. Quentin, taken. Turks, retreating before General Maude, reach Jebel Hamrin, whence they started on April 9. Austrian peace move; a statement amounting to an offer of a separate peace with Russia on the basis of old frontiers, made.

April 9, 1917

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1917, Arras, Athies, Bapaume, Battle of Arras, Battle of Vimy Ridge, Belad, Boursies, Brazil, Cambrai, Canada, Deli Abbas, Deniecourt, Feuchy, First Battle of the Scarpe, France, Frederick Stanley Maude, Fresnoy-le-Petit, Germany, Great Britain, Harbe, Havrincourt, Hermies, Iraq, Jebel Hamrin, Le Verguier, Lens, Ottoman Empire, Pontru, prisoners of war, Samarrah Offensive, St Quentin, Thelus, Turkey, Vimy Ridge

Great British Attack from Lens to Arras. – Advance on a 12-mile front to a depth of 3,000 yards; Feuchy, Athies, Thélus, and the Vimy Ridge carried, and nearly 6,000 prisoners taken by noon. Boursies, Hermies and Deniecourt carried on the Bapaume-Cambrai road, and Havrincourt Wood penetrated. Fresnoy-le-Petit, Pontru, and Le Verguier north of St. Quentin, taken. General Maude occupies Harbe, four miles north of Belad. Turks advance from Jebel Hamrin, lured on by feigned British retreat from Deli Abbas. Brazil breaks off relations with Germany.

April 2, 1917

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1917, American President, Arras, Bapaume, Croisilles, Diyala, Doignies, France, Francilly-Selency, Germany, Great Britain, Holnon, Imperial German Navy, Iran, Iraq, Khanikin, merchant navy, Operation Alberich, Ottoman Empire, Persia, Russia, Selency, sinking, SS Aztec, St Quentin, submarine, Turkey, United States of America, Woodrow Wilson

British within two miles of St. Quentin; Francilly-Selency, Selency, and Holnon taken. Progress between Bapaume and Arras on a 10-mile front; Doignies and Croisilles taken. British and Russians in contact on the Diala River, south-west of Khanikin. President Wilson’s address to Congress; he asks for declaration that a state of war exists. American armed liner Aztec torpedoed off the French coast.

April 1, 1917

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1917, Ailette, Bapaume, British Empire, communications, East Africa, Epehy, France, General Baratov, German East Africa, German Empire, Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Kilimanjaro, Laon, Operation Alberich, Ottoman Empire, Paitak Pass, Peizieres, Peronne, Persia, prisoners of war, Qasr-i-Shirin, railway, Savy, St Quentin, Tanzania, Turkey

British advance towards St. Quentin continues; Savy, four miles from the town, taken and Epéhy and Peizières on the Bapaume-Peronne railway; 1,239 prisoners taken during March, a total of 4,600 from beginning of year. French progress between the Ailette and the Laon road, General Baratoff through the Paitak Pass and 18 miles from Kasr-i-Shirin. War Office announces capture of small mounted party of enemy in East Africa near Lake Eyassi, 140 miles west of Kilimanjaro.