In the course of the battle, the Austro-Hungarian armies were severely defeated and forced out of Galicia, while the Russians captured Lemberg and, for approximately nine months, ruled Eastern Galicia

Instead, the British commander, Brigadier General Street, mounted a futile and bloody series of attacks that in the end gained a small patch of ground known as 'The Vineyard'

It lasted for three days and ended in victory for the Entente forces

Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Supreme Commander, planned a major counter-offensive on 18 July; 24 French divisions, including several British Divisions, and the Buffalo Soldiers 92nd Infantry Division (United States) then under French command, and reinfo...

Three German torpedo boat flotillas sortied into the North Sea and encountered the British Fifteenth Mine-sweeping Flotilla near Dogger Bank

The battle was a series of attempts to sink the blockaded German cruiser that eventually resulted in the destruction of Konigsberg

It took place between 14 July and 3 September, between the armies of the German Empire and allied British and South African forces

The German attack failed when an Allied counterattack led by French and American forces overwhelmed the Germans, inflicting severe casualties

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on the night of the 27th suffered a heavily-concentrated German chlorine gas attack near the German-held village of Hulluch, a mile north of Loos

The attack was made (after a long night march) by Australian, British and New Zealand mounted troops against a well entrenched Ottoman force

After leaving port in March disguised as the Norwegian freighter Rena Norge, the Leopard set sail on its mission to disrupt Allied commerce

Some Italians see Vittorio Veneto as the final culmination of the nationalist movement, in which Italy was unified

On April 4, 1918, three armed transports, US Armed Transports , and were steaming back to the United States in convoy after having completed a troop transportation voyage to France

Fighting occurred over an extensive area north of the Gaza-Beersheba line and west of the road from Beersheba to Jerusalem via Hebron

Ottoman Army was in Taif, Syed's forces besieged the city and after many weeks siege and fiercest struggle Syed's forces were able to capture the Taif

The German army invaded Belgium on the morning of August 4, 1914, two days after the decision of the Belgian government not to allow German troops unhindered passage to France

The Germans captured the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), with its main islands of Saaremaa (osel), Hiiumaa (Dago), and Muhu (Moon) during Operation Albion in September 1917

The British regularly shipped coal across the North Sea from Norway in 1917, these convoys were lightly defended so the German Navy took advantage of the situation

The battle resulted in a decisive Entente victory, with a defeated Bulgaria left to sign an armistice, which removed it from World War I

It ended with a Montenegrin victory

The landing, which commenced on the night of 6 August 1915, was intended to support a breakout from the Anzac sector, five miles (8 km) to the south

On 9 March 1918, it advanced and occupied the town of Hit in a bloodless victory, the Ottoman forces evacuating without a shot being fired

Although the Germans won the battle, their ship was badly damaged and they were forced to end their raid and return to Germany

The German fleet sent a battlecruiser squadron with accompanying cruisers and destroyers-commanded by Rear Admiral Friedrich Bodicker-to bombard the coastal ports of Yarmouth and Lowestoft

The battle was the first significant action of the Czechoslovak Legions (volunteers fighting against the Central Powers) on the Eastern Front and the only successful action of the failed offensive

It began on 7 June 1917 when the British Second Army under the command of General Herbert Plumer launched an offensive near the village of Mesen (Messines) in West Flanders, Belgium

The German light cruiser attacked the British cable station on Direction Island and was engaged several hours later by the Australian light cruiser

After the Danube was breached by German, Bulgarian and Ottoman troops under the command of General August von Mackensen, and after German-Austro-Hungarian forces under the command of General Erich von Falkenhayn crossed the Carpathians, the Central Po...

With the successful conclusion of the preceding Battle of Morval at the end of September, the Fourth Army of Lieutenant General Henry Rawlinson had finally captured the third line of German defences on the Somme

This defeat at the hands of the Allies contributed to the halt of the German Spring Offensive of 1918

Because of the hastiness of the German attack, however, the Russian army emerged victorious

Julien-Kitcheners' Wood

The operation was planned to occur in tandem with the Namoloasa offensive; however, this operation was abandoned before it began

The British first attacked the Redoubt on September 25, 1915, the first day of the Battle of Loos (historians generally take the battle to have lasted from September 25-October 13)

On 11 March 1917, after a series of defeats, it captured Baghdad after a two-year campaign

Most successful of German commerce raiders during the war, was commanded by Corvette Captain Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien and was assigned to duty in the Atlantic

On the night of August 3, 1916, an Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, attacked the British Empire forces at Romani

The German Navy had used the port since 1915 as a base for their U-boat activities during the battle of the Atlantic and the strategic advantages conferred by the Belgian ports in the conflict were very important

7 mi) to overrun and capture the last remaining Ottoman trenches, and secure the surviving wells at Birussebi

French shore batteries and a gunboat resisted the German intrusion, but were greatly outgunned

The Canadian Corps advanced over 5 kilometers and captured the towns of Monchy-le-Preux and Wancourt

Even though losses were heavy on both sides, the ground situation changed little by the end of the action

The German cruiser had been taking on coal in the delta of the Rufiji River when her crew were told that a British cruiser, , which had been part of the Royal Navy's Cape Squadron sent to counter Koningsberg, had put in at Zanzibar for repairs

With the French under heavy pressure at Arras the order was given that the British force would provide relief by attacking the Germans around Givenchy, thus preventing German reinforcement of Arras from that quarter

Ostend was attacked in conjunction with the neighbouring harbour of Zeebrugge on 23 April in order to block the vital strategic port of Bruges, situated 6 mi (5

At the time, Penang was part of the Straits Settlement, a British Crown Colony

The attacking forces of the Arab Revolt, led by Auda ibu Tayi and Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia'), were victorious over the Turkish defenders

After Baghdad fell to the British on March 11, 1917, there were still 10,000 Ottoman troops north of the city, led by Khalil Pasha, who could represent a threat to Anglo-Indian forces

As well as being the natural course for the Russians to take upon the declaration of war with Germany, it was also an attempt to focus German military eyes on the Eastern Front, as opposed to the Western Front, where France was increasingly under the ...

Ultimately the Germans were victorious with about half of the Polish forces surrendering and the rest retreating in disarray

The French Tenth Army, led by Louis Maud'huy, attacked the advancing German forces on 1 October, initially experiencing success until they reached the town of Douai

The battle was fought between the Austro-Hungarian Army and Serbian forces

It was one of many incidents at the time involving armed Chinese men firing on foreign vessels At the beginning of World War I, the European nations with flotillas on the Yangtze withdrew their vessels to reinforce their fleets in Europe

In December 1915, the Austro-Hungarian Navy sent another cruiser Squadron into the Adriatic, this time to interfere with the Serbian Campaign

Little damage was done to the town since shells only landed on the beach after German ships laying mines offshore were interrupted by British destroyers

Already for some time the Austrian commander-in-chief, General Conrad von Hotzendorf, had been proposing the idea of a Strafexpedition that would lethally cripple the Italian ex-ally, claimed to be guilty of having betrayed the Triple Alliance, and in...

Lieutenant General Hubert Gough's Reserve Army had finally managed to break out of the positions it had occupied since the start of the Somme fighting (1 July) and Gough intended to maintain the pressure on the German forces on the high ground above t...

Despite being outnumbered, the Bulgarian Third Army was victorious and took Southern Dobruja, pushing the Russian and Romanian forces further north and defeating them once again at the Lake Oltina - Kara Omer - Mangalia line

Australian forces had been dispatched to seize and destroy German wireless stations in the south-west Pacific because they were used by the German East Asian Cruiser Squadron of Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee which threatened merchant shipping in th...

As the French situation was becoming more and more severe, General Joffre appealed to the other Allies for a diversionary action someplace else in order to compel the Germans to withdraw part of their forces from Verdun

The battle took place along the Western Front on the outskirts of Lens in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France between 15 August 1917 and 25 August 1917

Decoded radio intercepts had given the British advance knowledge that a German raiding squadron was heading for Dogger Bank, so they dispatched their own naval forces to intercept it

The French were planning an attack across the Sambre River, when the Germans launched an attack of their own

The Ottoman forces, led by Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz were besieging Kut, when the Anglo-Indian relief force, led by Lieutenant-General Fenton Aylmer, attempted to relieve the city

The Allied attack failed to capture and hold the German-held high ground along the Passchendaele-Westrozebeke ridge and resulted in significant Allied casualties

The battle took place in and around the French city of Cambrai, between 8 and 10 October 1918

In late November 1916 Germano-Bulgarian forces under August von Mackensen crossed the Danube near Zimnicea under the cover of fog and began to march on Bucharest

The critical moment of the battle was the capture of the town of Beersheba on the first day by Australian Light Horse units

The German Ninth Army led by August von Mackensen attacked the Russian Second Army, under General Smirnov, near the Polish village of Bolimow, lying on the railway line connecting todz and Warsaw

To remedy the problem the Germans invaded Portuguese East Africa in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel

Gellibrand's advance began well but ended with a disastrous, ill planned and ill executed 'unauthorised' attack on Noreuil

It resulted in a German Army victory against the French Army

In 1917, the Russian Caucasus Front collapsed following the abdication of the Tsar

With the exit of Russia from the war in 1917, Austria-Hungary was now able to devote significant forces to the Italian Front and to receive reinforcements from their German allies

The battle consisted of an offensive by the British and French armies against the German Army, which since invading France in August 1914 had occupied large areas of that country

The British, after a defeat at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November, sent a large force to track down and destroy the victorious German cruiser squadron

On 17 November 1917, German minesweepers clearing a path through the British minefield in the Heligoland Bight near the coast of Germany were intercepted by two British light cruisers, and , performing counter-minesweeping duties

Black church, Turkish: Karakilise Muharebesi) was a battle on the Caucasus front in July 1915 after the Battle of Manzikert

In November 1914, two Ottoman warships under the German Admiral Wilhelm Souchon engaged a Russian fleet in a short action

The Ottoman divisions attacked on May 21, but after three days of fierce combat the Armenians remained firm and the Ottoman regiments retreated in defeat

Following Egypt's entry into the war in support of the British, consideration had to be given to two possible threats; the anti-British sentiment felt by many Arab citizens of Egypt and the possibility of attack from the Ottoman Army

It was employed patrolling an area of the North Sea known as the 'Broad Fourteens' in support of vessels guarding the northern entrance to the Channel

The battle remains known in history for the great number of casualties that the Serbian army suffered and for the extraordinary force that both sides showed

Haelen (Dutch: Halen) was a small market town along the principal axis of advance of the German imperial army and provided a good crossing point over the river Gete

When he was made a viscount, Allenby took the name of this battle as his title, becoming the First Viscount Allenby of Megiddo

Dismissed beforehand by one French commander as 'an attack organized for amateurs by amateurs', it turned out to be 'hugely successful' for the British, in complete contrast to the disaster of the first day on the Somme

Cambrai, in the (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), was a key supply point for the German Siegfried Stellung (part of the Hindenburg Line) and the nearby Bourlon Ridge would be an excellent gain from which to threaten the rear of the German line to the north

It was the logistical step after the Erzerum Campaign

In an effort to pull British resources from the observed build-up in the Somme, the XIII (Royal Wurttemberg) Corps and the 117th Infantry Division attacked an arc of high ground positions defended by the Canadian Corps

Using the 'bite and hold' tactic (where the objective was limited to what could be captured and successfully held), the attacking Allied forces conducted an attack on well-entrenched German forces, and showed that it was possible for the allies to suc...

The battle lasted from March 8 to March 13, 1918 over the city of Bakhmach (), today in Ukraine

General Rawlinson, as the commander of the British Fourth Army, which had the major responsibility in the battle, originally proposed an initial offensive limited to gaining a foothold in part of the German first line and holding it against expected G...

Royal Navy destroyers defeated a superior force of torpedo boats (the British had lost one destroyer, a transport, and several drifters while the Germans themselves suffered only minor damage to a single torpedo boat

The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army

The battle ended in decisive victory for the Central Powers and the occupation of the strategic port of Constanta and capture of the railway between that city and Cernavoda

It was the first major event of the war in Africa and saw the British defeated by a significantly smaller force of German Askaris and colonial volunteers

It took place between 31 October and 7 November 1914 and was fought by Imperial Japan and the United Kingdom against Germany

The battle, which was part of the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, took place on a strategic area the westernmost edge of the Kras plateau

The battle was fought from the 4th to 13 of September 1914, between the 6th German Army commanded by Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and the 2nd French Army commanded by Noel de Castelnau

At the beginning of 1918 Austro-Hungarian troops set up a fortified position with small artillery pieces on the top of the San Matteo Peak, from which they were able to shell the road to the Gavia Pass and thus harass the Italian supply convoys to the...

An Imperial German U-boat opened fire on the American town of Orleans, Massachusetts and several merchant vessels nearby

The task for the Entente forces on the Macedonian Front was to inflict major defeats on the Bulgarian army and effect a wide breakthrough in the Balkans in a relatively short time

A British cavalry brigade preparing to leave their overnight bivouac were attacked by a German cavalry division of about twice their strength shortly after dawn

It took place in the Baltic Sea off the shores of Gotland, Sweden, a country neutral in World War I

This followed Plan XVII, which proposed a French offensive through Lorraine and Alsace, and into Germany itself

It was a minor German success, but did little to upset the Russian timetable

Several contemporaneous observers and later historians have pointed out that the Ottoman-Turkish government deliberately instigated the armed Armenian Resistance by enforcing the conditions on their subjects and then used this insurgency as a main pr...

Its known also as 1st Battle of Kut

The German High Seas Fleet remained largely in safe harbours on the north German coast while the British Grand Fleet remained in the northern North Sea

The attack began on 9 August with heavy artillery fire on the positions of the 27th Chepino Regiment and 9th Plovdiv Regiment

The battle began with the forcing of the South Morava by the Bulgarian 1st Army and ended with the total defeat of the Serbian army

It was effectively the first significant attack by the Allies against the Germans since the construction of trenches following the so-called 'Race to the Sea' during the autumn of 1914

Quentin (also called the First Battle of Guise (French: )) was fought during World War I

It was a battle in World War I as part of the Second Battle of the Marne, initially prompted by a German offensive launched on 15 July against the newest troops on the front, the AEF (American Expeditionary Force)