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World War I History
World War I History
1916 - Near the Isonzo River, the Seventh Battle of Isonzo ended with minimal Italian advances. Italian troops had launched a concentrated attack on Austro-Hungarian positions on the Italian Front on September 14.
1916 - German pilot Manfred von Richthofen shot down his first enemy plane over the Western Front. He was known in history as the "Red Baron."
1919 - In Washington, DC, General John J. Pershing led a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.
| "I...share your wish that peace should be maintained. But...I cannot consider Austria's action against Serbia an 'ignoble' war. Austria knows by experience that Serbian promises on paper are wholly unreliable. I understand its action must be judged as trending to get full guarantee that the Serbian promises shall become real facts...I therefore suggest that it would be quite possible for Russia to remain a spectator of the Austro-Serbian conflict without involving Europe in the most horrible war she ever witnessed." - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in a telegram to Czar Nicholas II of Russia on July 29, 1914 |
