A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- Joffre sends a reply today to Grand Duke Nicholas' telegram of the 3rd, assuring the commander-in-chief of the Russian army that the F...

- After a day of heavy fighting the Russian counterattack in central Poland by III Caucasian Corps has stalled, and the arrival of the first...

- At French army headquarters the Operations Bureau has been considering the next phase of the war on the Western Front, and submits a repor...

- In the first months of the war the French government had imposed a number of what it had described as temporary moratoriums on a range of ...

- In France four squadrons of Voisin biplanes, totaling eighteen airplanes, are merged together into 1st Bombardment Group, the first French...

- The readjustment of the position of the British Expeditionary Force on the line has been completed.  All British units are now together, a...

- The decision of Duke Albrecht yesterday to suspend offensive operations at Ypres is approved today by Falkenhayn.  For several weeks he ha...

- Though German shelling continues there are no significant infantry actions today in Flanders.  The reorganization of the Entente line purs...

- Early this afternoon at Ypres an attack is made by the Guards' Regiments of Winckler's Division and 4th Division on the British li...

- The pre-dawn hours at Ypres give no hint of the impending German attack, while the first rays of light reveal a think grey fog covering th...

- This morning General Plettenberg requests that the attack to be launched by Winckler's Division and 4th Division be delayed by one day...

- The French 11th Division arrives today south of Ypres, and assists an attack by the French XVI Corps against the enemy lines near the Comi...