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World War I History
World War I History
1914 - In Africa, the Battle of Tanga began with the amphibious invasion of the men of India Expeditionary Force B (IEF B). The group evacuated after the failed invasion on November 5.
1916 - Fort Vaux was recaptured from the Germans.
1917 - Near Bathelemont, France, Corporal James Gresham and privates Thomas Enright and Merle Hay of the 16th Infantry became the first American soldiers to die in World War I when Germans raided their trenches.
1917 - Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild to express the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
| "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight." - President Woodrow Wilson, May 10, 1915 |
