1916 | |
January 27th | Recruiting is introduced to Britian |
February 21st | Beginning of the Battle of Verdun |
April 29th | British troops surrender to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia |
May 31st | Beginning of Battle of Jutland |
June 4th | Start of the Brusliv Offensive |
July 1st | Start of the Battle of Somme |
August 10th | End of the Drusilov Offensive |
September 15th | At Somme, first mass use of tanks |
December 7th | Lloyd George becomes the British Prime Minister |
1917 | |
February 1st | Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started |
April 6th | US joins the war and declares war on Germany |
April 16th | France unsuccessfully attacked the Western Front |
July 31st | Start the Third Battle at Ypres |
October 24th | Italian Army defeated at the Battle of Caporetto |
November 6th | British launched troops on the Western Front |
November 20th | British won at Cambrai |
December 5th | Armistice between Germany and Russia signed |
December 9th | Britain captured Jerusalem from the Turks |
The horror of war, the straining, bloody, tiring, aspects of war, all bundled into World War I. A time of strife and pain, enemies and allies, victory and loss; splitting the world. During World War One, 230 soldiers perished for each hour of the four and a quarter years it continued. There were 70,000,000 men and women in uniform and one-half of that number were either killed, wounded or became prisoners of war. The battle was horror.
The Horrors of War Timeline (1916-1917)
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