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1917-06-071917-06-14Messines

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

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1917-05-141917-05-15The Strait of Otranto

This battle was the largest surface action in the Adriatic Sea during World War The Otranto Barrage was a fixed barrier, composed of lightly-armed drifters with anti-submarine nets coupled with minefields and supporte...

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1917-05-04Action of 4 May 1917

The action took place between the German Zeppelin LZ92 and the Australian light cruiser, HMAS Sydney.

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1917-04-221917-05-08Doiran (1917)

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

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1917-04-201917-04-21Dover Strait (1917)

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

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1917-04-19Second Gaza

The First Battle of Gaza of 26 March 1917 was a fiasco for the Allies after the commander, General Charles Dobell, made the decision to withdraw when his troops were in a position to seize victory

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1917-04-171917-04-20The Hills

The battle takes place east of Rheims, between Prunay and Auberive, in the province of Champagne, along the solid mass of Moronvilliers which includes seven mountains: Mont Cornillet (206 m), Mont-Blond (211 m), Mont-Haut (257 m), Mont Perthuis (232 m...

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1917-04-161917-05-09Second the Aisne

Robert Nivelle, Commander-in-Chief of the French army, initiated the plan in December 1916 after he replaced Joseph Joffre, who had been disgraced by a series of strategic defeats

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1917-04-091917-04-12Vimy Ridge

The main combatants were the Canadian Corps against three divisions of the German Sixth Army

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1917-04-091917-05-16Arras (1917)

From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Australian troops attacked German trenches near the French city of Arras on the Western Front

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