October 14, 1918

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1918, Albania, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Courtrai, Battle of Roulers, Belgium, British Army, communications, Cortemarck, Dixmude, Durazzo, Durres, Final Advance of Flanders, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hunding line, Hundred Days Offensive, Iseghem, Iskutsk, Italy, Izegem, King Albert I, Kortemark, Krasnoyarsk, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, monarchy, railway, Roeselare, Roulers, Royal Navy, Russia, Russian Civil War, Siberia, Sissonne, Tirana, Wervicq, Wervik

Belgian, French, and British attack under King Albert on a 28-mile front from Dixmude to Wervicq, the British Fleet cooperating; to the north French carry Roulers and Belgians Iseghem, and farther north Cortemarck Station captured. French take Sissonne on the Hunding line. Italians occupy Durazzo and Tirana. British troops reach Irkutsk and leave for Krasnoyarsk.

October 3, 1918

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1918, Armentieres, Australia, Battle of Ramicourt, Battle of St Quentin Canal, Battle of the Beaurevoir Line, Battle of the Hindenburg Line, Beaurevoir, Belgium, British Empire, Challerange, Champagne, Fifth Battle of Ypres, Final Advance of Flanders, Fonsomme, France, Germany, Gouy, Great Britain, Hindenburg Line, Hooglede, Hundred Days Offensive, Le Catelet, Loivre, occupation, Ramicourt, Reims, Roeselare, Roulers, Sequehart, St Quentin, Wiancourt

French and Belgian advance reaches Hooglede and Hooglede-Roulers road. British occupy Armentières. North of St. Quentin British attack on an eight-mile front, taking Sequehart; on the left they take Ramicourt and Wiancourt, and north, again, Le Catelet and Gouy; south-east of Le Catelet Australians break Beaurevoir-Fonsomme line. French take Loivre, north-west of Reims, and Challerange in Champagne.

September 29, 1918

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1918, Ailette, Battle of St Quentin Canal, Battle of the Canal du Nord, Battle of the Hindenburg Line, Belgium, Cambrai, Charles Mangin, Dixmude, Fifth Battle of Ypres, Final Advance of Flanders, Flanders, France, Germany, Gheluvelt, Great Britain, Hindenburg Line, Hundred Days Offensive, Menin, Messines, Passchendaele, prisoners of war, Roeselare, Roulers, Sensee, St Quentin, United States of America

Anglo-Belgian progress of four to six miles, with 6,000 prisoners; Dixmude, Passchendaele, Gheluvelt, Messines, and other places occupied and the Roulers-Menin road reached. British-American battle on a 30-mile front from north of the Sensée to the neighbourhood of St. Quentin; British reach outskirts of Cambrai and break Hindenburg line on a six-mile front between Cambrai and St. Quentin; 22,000 prisoners in three days. Mangin reaches the Ailette.

August 1, 1917

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1917, Aleksei Brusilov, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of Pilkem Ridge, Belgium, Bessarabia, Bukowina, Chernivtsi, Commander-in-Chief, communications, Czernowitz, Flanders, France, Galicia, General Tcheremisov, Germany, Great Britain, Kerensky Offensive, Lavr Kornilov, Moldova, Radko Dmitriev, railway, Roeselare, Roulers, Russia, St Julien, Ukraine, Ypres, Yser, Zandvoorde, Zbrucz, Zillebeke

German counter-attacks on new British line; St. Julien lost, and some ground along the Ypres-Roulers railway lost, but recovered; British line advanced a little near the Zillebeke-Zandvoorde road; French win fresh ground on west bank of Yser Canal. Enemy advance near Russian frontier at River Zbrucz, in Bukovina towards Czernovitz, and gain a footing in Bessarabia. General Brusiloff resigns and is succeeded as Russian Commander-in-Chief by General Korniloff; General Tcheremisoff succeeds Korniloff, and General Radko Dmitrieff resigns.

June 2, 1916

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1916, Battle of Mont Sorrel, Battle of Verdun, Belgium, British Empire, Caillette Wood, Canada, Caurettes Wood, communications, Flanders, fortress, France, Germany, Hill 62, Hooge, railway, Roeselare, Roulers, trenches, Vaux, Ypres, Zillebeke

French retake 100 yards of ground lost south of Caurettes Wood; German progress in Caillette Wood, south of Vaux Pond, and at Damloup; they break into the fosse north of Vaux Fort. Great German attack on Ypres salient between Hooge and the Ypres–Roulers railway; British trenches entered on a 3,000-yard front to a depth of 700 yards in the direction of Zillebeke.

July 29, 1915

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1915, aeroplanes, air raid, Alsace, Argonne, August von Mackensen, Belgium, bombardment, Burthecourt, Champagne, Chatel, Chelm, Combles, communications, Dornach, Field Marshal, Flanders, France, gas, Germany, Longueval, Lorraine, Lublin, Mulhausen, Mulhouse, Nancy, Passchendaele, Picardie, Poland, railway, Reims, Roeselare, Roulers, Russia, Somme, weapons, Ypres

Von Mackensen breaks through the Russian line on the Lublin–Cholm railway. German aeroplanes drop bombs on Nancy; French aeroplanes bombard Passchendaele on the Ypres–Roulers railway, German bivouacs in the district of Longueval to the west of Combres, German defence works near Reims, the stations of Chatel in the Argonne and Burthecourt in Lorraine, and an asphyxiating gas factory at Dornach in Alsace.