“On April 30 we left Vorssilaire at 7:00AM and, after going through that maze of waterways and canals that surround Antwerp, we finally pulled into our quay at 3:30 PM—22 days after we had started from Toule, France—where I turned over the three barges and papers into the care ...
A map showing the Gallipoli Peninsula. On the left, you can see ANZAC Cove, where the ANZACs came ashore in 1915. On the right, you can see the Dardenelles; the narrow stretch of water which the Royal Navy failed to blast its way through The ships transporting Australian troops sailed f...
On September 5, 1914, Russia, France, and Great Britain concluded the Treaty of London, each promising not to make a separate peace with the Central Powers. Thenceforth, they could be called the Allied, or Entente, powers, or simply the Allies. Causes and start of World War IOverview of...
On September 5, 1914, Russia, France, and Great Britain concluded theTreaty of London, each promising not to make a separate peace with the Central Powers. Thenceforth, they could be called theAllied, or Entente, powers, or simply theAllies. ...
Maxime Weygand was a French army officer who in World War I served as chief of staff under Gen. (later Marshal) Ferdinand Foch and who in World War II, as commander in chief of the Allied armies in France, advised the French government to capitulate (Jun
Romaniawas not persuaded to join theAllied powersuntil 1916, andAlbaniawas powerless to avoid being partitioned by the warring parties. Moreover, the Balkans were not a major theatre of operations. The Central Powers finally subdued Serbia after their second onslaught, launched in 1915. In that ...
they harassed German communications and transport in preparation for Allied landings. The six months preceding the Normandy Invasion were a period of civil war in France between the members of the Resistance and the GermanGestapo(secret police) aided by Vichy militias. When the provisional government...