A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- Conrad continues to press Falkenhayn for the deployment of the four new reserve corps on the Eastern Front, sending a telegram today argui...

- Admiral Pohl, Chief of the Naval Staff, telegraphs Admiral Ingenohl of the High Seas Fleet to inform the latter of a conference held three...

- After closing on the outbreak of war in August, the London Stock Exchange reopens today. - The ability of the French army to increase it...

- Early this morning a dispatch from the British attache at Russian army headquarters arrives at the Foreign Office, conveying Grand Duke Ni...

- In Champagne the French II Corps recaptures most of the ground lost to the German counterattack of yesterday, but the Germans launch anoth...

- After several days of attacks in Artois General Pétain's XXXIII Corps manages to capture seven hundred yards of German trenches today,...

- The British Expeditionary Force implements a reorganization today with the creation of 1st and 2nd Armies, under the command of Generals H...

- Three days after the first attempt to bombard England from the air, at 1045am a single German Friedrichshafen FF 29 seaplane appears over ...

- The British government announces a further tightening of the blockade of Germany by declaring additional items to now be contraband and su...

- By today the British line between Cuinchy and Neuve Chapelle has been stabilized by the insertion of 1st Division of I Corps into the cent...