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World War 1 - Saturday September 26th

• June 28th - Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand (heir to Austro-Hungarian Empire) assassinated in Sarajevo
• August 1st - German declaration of war on Russia
• August 4th - British declaration of war after German invasion of Belgium
• August 23rd - British retreat from Mons
• September 14th - German Armies stopped by the French at the Marne
• October 19th - First Battle of Ypres (19 October to 22 November 1914)
• November 17th - Announcement that income tax was to be doubled in UK to finance the war
• November 29th - Former president Roosevelt criticised US neutrality policy
• December 16th - North East of England coastal towns, Scarborough, shelled by German warships several fatalities
• December 25th - Xmas truce on the battlefield

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Week - September 26th 1914

German submarine action against the Royal Navy

The Hougomont of the Battle of the Marne - Struggle for the Chateau of Mondement - 32nd of the French line and the 231st territorials

Turn of the tide: The great retreat of the Germans at the Battle of the Marne

An airfight and a land fight A flying Corps incident - A Caudron Biplane

A close quarters fight for the Chateau Mondement

The Germans burning their dead before their evacuation of Esternay

The bodies were piled on petrol soaked logs and cremated

Three men on a horse! A cossack and infantry advance

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1915

April: The Gallipoli Campaign

April: The second Battle of Ypres

May: The sinking of the Lusitania

1916

February: Germans attacke the French at Verdun

May: The Battle of Jutland

July: Battle of the Somme

1917

March: The Russian Revolution

April: The USA declares war on Germany

July: Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele)

1918

March: Russia makes peace with Germany

August: Allied offensive

November 11th: Germany surrenders.

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