Today in
World War I History
World War I History
1915 - In northern France, the three-day Battle of Neuve Chapelle began.
1917 - Turkish troops began their evacutation of Baghdad.
1917 - In Petrograd, all of the city's workers were on strike. The demonstrators had taken to the streets starting on March 8.
| "Nowhere else in the world have noble men and women exhibited in more striking forms the beauty and the energy of sympathy and helpfulness and counsel in their efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering, and set the weak in the way of strength and hope." - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, March 13, 1913 |
