November 21, 1917

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1917, armistice, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Cambrai, Battle of Nebi Samwil, Bourlon Wood, Brenta, British Empire, Cambrai, Cantaing, Commander-in-Chief, Craonne, Edmund Allenby, First Battle of Monte Grappa, First Battle of the Piave, Fontaine Notre Dame, France, German East Africa, German Empire, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Jerusalem, Juvincourt, Kitangani, merchant shipping, Mount Fontana Secca, Mouvres, Nikolai Krylenko, Nikolay Dukhonin, Noyelles, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, peace, Piave, prisoners of war, Russia, Russian Army, Russian Revolution, Scheldt, Tanzania, Turkey

British advance continues; ground on east bank of Scheldt Canal, Noyelles, Cantaing, part of Bourlon Wood, and Mouvres taken, and Fontaine Notre Dame, 2½ miles from Cambrai, entered; 8,000 prisoners to date. French carry a salient south of Juvincourt, Craonne Plateau, taking 400 prisoners. Enemy take Mt. Fontana Secca, between the Brenta and the Piave. General Allenby takes Nebi Samwil Ridge (Mizpeh), five miles from Jerusalem. German surrenders at Simba’s; Kitangani Valley, East Africa. Germany announces widening of the zone barred to shipping. General Dukhonin, Russian Commander-in-Chief, refusing to offer an armistice to the enemy, is relieved of his command by the Bolshevist Government, and Ensign Krilenko appointed in his place.

July 27, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Craonne, France, Germany, Kezivasarhely, Moronvilliers, Romania, Russia, Second Battle of the Aisne, Targu Secuiesc

Further German attacks on Moronvilliers and Craonne ridges. Further Rumanian advance towards Kezdi-Vasarhely.

July 25, 1917

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1917, artillery, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium, Buczacz, Carpathians, Craonne, Delatyn, evacuation, Flanders, France, Galicia, Germany, Great Britain, Kerensky Offensive, Ottynia, prisoners of war, retreat, Romania, Russia, Second Battle of the Aisne, Tlumacz, Trembowla, Ukraine

Russian retreat pivoting on Trembowla; Buczacz, Tlumacz, Ottynia, and Delatyn evacuated, and positions in Carpathians abandoned. Rumanians 7½ miles from their old front, taking another 450 prisoners. Artillery battle in Flanders increasing. Fighting on California Plateau, Craonne region; French repel counter-attacks.

July 24, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Buczacz, Carpathians, Craonne, Eduard von Bohm-Ermolli, France, Galicia, Germany, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kerensky Offensive, Russia, Second Battle of the Aisne, Stanislau, Tarnopol, Ukraine

Fall of Stanislau and Tarnopol to Böhm-Ermolli, and enemy drawing near to Buczacz; Russians in retreat as far as the Carpathians. French regain nearly all ground lost on plateaux around Craonne.

July 19, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Beersheba, Belgium, Craonne, France, Galicia, Georg Michaelis, German East Africa, German Empire, German Imperial Chancellor, Germany, Great Britain, Hurtebise, Israel, Kerensky Offensive, Kilwa, Lombartzyde, Mbemkuru, mutiny, Narongombe, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, peace, Russia, Second Battle of the Aisne, St Quentin, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, Zloczow

German Counter-attack on Russian front; Russian positions east of Zloczow pierced as a result of the troops’ insubordination. German attack south of Lombartzyde; Germans reach British line, but are thrown out again. Fresh German attacks near St. Quentin defeated, and also between Craonne and Hurtebise. Two Turkish cavalry regiments driven back at Beersheba. Enemy’s main position attacked at Narongombe, south-west of Kilwa, East Africa; they retire to the Mbemkuru Valley. Speech by Herr Michaelis, the new German Chancellor; he declares for a victor’s peace and the inviolability of German territory; Germany will not again offer peace.

July 14, 1917

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1917, Cerny, Chemin-des-Dames, Craonne, England, France, Gaza, Georg Michaelis, German Imperial Chancellor, Germany, Great Britain, King George V, London, monarchy, Moronvilliers, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, prisoners of war, Queen Mary, Second Battle of the Aisne, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, trenches, Turkey

Fall of Bethmann Hollweg, the German Chancellor; Herr Michaelis succeeds him. German attack on the Chemin des Dames Ridge, west of Craonne; they win two lines of trenches in the Cerny salient, but lose most of them again; French success at Moronvilliers Ridge, taking trenches, the peaks of Mont Haut and Le Teton, and 360 prisoners. British raid on Turkish lines near Gaza. The King and Queen return to London after 10 days’ visit to France.

July 3, 1917

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1917, Aisne, artillery, Austria-Hungary, Brzezany, Craonne, France, Galicia, Germany, Jouy, Kerensky Offensive, Russia, Second Battle of the Aisne, Stockhod, Ukraine

Further Russian attack on Brzezany; artillery activity increasing northwards towards the Stockhod. German offensive on French front from Jouy to Craonne, north of the Aisne, beaten back with great loss.

June 29, 1917

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1917, Cerny, Cote 304, Craonne, Edmund Allenby, France, Germany, Great Britain, Mort Homme, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Second Battle of the Aisne, Sir Archibald Murray, trenches, Turkey, Verdun

War Office announce General Allenby taking over command in Palestine in succession to General Murray. Germans gain a footing in French salient near Cerny, west of Craonne. French regain part of lost trenches at Hill 304, Verdun; slight German progress west of Mort Homme.

June 25, 1917

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1917, Athens, Caverne du dragon, Christiania, Craonne, Eleftherios Venizelos, Fontaine, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, National Schism, Norway, Oslo, prisoners of war, Scarpe, Second Battle of the Aisne

British gains south of the Scarpe near Fontaine. French win a crest of the Craonne Ridge north-west of Hurtebise Farm, and take the stronghold known as the Dragon’s Cave; 300 prisoners. M. Venizelos in Athens. Dr. Michahelles, German Minister at Christiania, recalled, as a result of discovery of German bomb plot in Norway.

May 22, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Belgian Empire, Belgium, Chevreux, Craonne, East Africa, France, German East Africa, German Empire, Germany, Hungarian Prime Minister, Hungary, Istvan Tisza, Major Wintgens, Ruanda-Urundi, Rufiji, Second Battle of the Aisne, Tanzania, trenches

French assault on either side of Craonne; three lines of trenches carried east of Chevreux. Major Wintgens, commander of German party escaping from Rufiji area captured by Belgian column. Resignation of Count Tisza, the Hungarian Premier.