List of World War I battles
List of Canadian battles during the First World War on the Western Front plaque in Currie Hall, Royal Military College of Canada
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette National Cemetery at Ablain-Saint-Nazaire - the largest single military cemetery in France, holding an ossuary and burials of 40,051 soldiers.
.JPG)
Tyne Cot Cemetery at Ypres Salient, Belgium - the largest British military cemetery in the world with more than 35,000 soldiers.
World War I, which lasted from July 1914 to November 1918, was, at the time, the largest single war ever to have occurred. There were a large number of allies on each side of the conflict, and their geographical location and that of their imperial provinces meant that parts of the war were fought all over Europe, and in other places such as North Africa and the Middle East. A battle is a smaller conflict between two military enemies that often makes up part of a war. This is a list (though not exhaustive) of the battles of World War I, in chronological order. They are organized as to the opening date of the battle.
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
1914
August
- 1 Battle of Mons
- 5 Battle of Liège
- 7 Battle of the Frontiers
- 15 Battle of Cer
- 26 Battle of Tannenberg
September
October
1915
January
February
- 3 Defense of the Suez Badick
- 7 Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes
- 19 Dardanelles Bombardment
March
April
- 12 Battle of Shaiba
- 22 Battle of Gravenstafel (part of Second Battle of Ypres)
- 24 Battle of St Juliaan (part of Second Battle of Ypres)
- 25 Anzac Cove
- 25 Landing at Cape Helles
- 28 First Battle of Krithia
May
- 1 Eski Hissarlik
- 6 Second Battle of Krithia
- 8 Battle of Frezenberg (part of Second Battle of Ypres)
- 15 Battle of Festubert
- 19 Turkish attack at Anzac Cove
- 24 Battle of Bellewaarde (final part of Second Battle of Ypres )
- 31 Capture of Amara
June
- 4 Third Battle of Krithia
- 18 Attempt to Force the Narrows
- 23 First Battle of the Isonzo
- 27 Battle of Nasiriyeh
- 28 Battle of Gully Ravine
July
- 12 Attack on Ache Baba
- 18 Second Battle of the Isonzo
August
- 6 Suvla Bay
- 6 Battle of Lone Pine
- 6 Battle of Sari Bair
- 6 Battle of the Nek
- 17 Great Retreat (Russian)
- 21 Battle of Hill 60
- 21 Battle of Scimitar Hill
September
Langemark German war cemetery, in Belgium. This is a German war cemetery, consisting of a mass grave and other individual and group graves, as well as a memorial to the German missing of the war.
October
November
December
- 7 Siege of Kut-al-Amara
- 18 Evacuation of Gallipoli
1916
January
February
March
April
May
- 15 Battle of Asiago
- 15 Trentino Offensive
- 31 Battle of Jutland
June
- 4 Battle of Lutsk
- 4 Battle of Khanaqin
July
Canadian soldiers going 'over the top' at the start of the Battle of the Somme.
- 1 Battle of the Somme
- 14 Battle of Bazentin Ridge
- 15 Battle of Delville Wood
- 15 Battle of Fromelles
- 23 Battle of Pozières
August
September
October
November
December
- 14 Battle of Maghaba
- 13 Second Battle of Kut
1917
January
- 9 Battle of Khadairi Bend
February
- 26 Battle of Nahr-alKalek
March
- 11 Capture of Baghdad
- 13 Samarrah Offensive
- 19 Seizure of Falluja
- 25 Battle of Jebel Amlin
- 26 First Battle of Gaza
April
- 9 Second Battle of Arras
- 11 First Battle of Bullecourt
- 22 Battle of Doiran (1917)
May
- 3-11 Second Battle of Bullecourt
- 12 Tenth Battle of the Isonzo
- 14 Battle of Otranto Straits
June
July
The ruins of Ypres, after its three battles. The battle of Ypres was also known as the 'Battle of the Bulge,' because of the bulge effect it had on the lines of allied trenches. Due to Ypres' strategic importance, the battles fought over it had huge death tolls.
- 31 Third Battle of Ypres
- 31 Battle of Passchendaele also known as "The Battle of the Mud"
August
- 19 Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo
- 20 Battle of Liege
September
October
- 24 Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo
- 24 Battle of Caporetto
- 31 Third Battle of Gaza
- 31 Battle of Beersheba
November
- 5 Capture of Tikrit
- 13 Battle of Mughar Ridge
- 20 Battle of Cambrai
December
- 8 Fall of Jerusalem
1918
March
April
- 9 Battle of the Lys/Operation Georgette
- 23 Raid on Zeebrugge
May
June
- 1 Battle of Belleau Wood
- 18 Battle of Chateau-Thierry
- 15 Battle of the Piave River
- 18 Action of 18 June 1918
July
- 4 Battle of Hamel
- 14 Battle of Abu Tellul
- 15 Second Battle of the Marne
- 18 Battle of Soissons
- 21 Attack on Orleans
August
September
- 12 Battle of Havrincourt
- 12 Battle of Saint-Mihiel
- 18 Battle of Epehy
- 19 Battle of Megiddo
- 26 Battle of the Argonne Forest
- 27 Battle of the Canal du Nord
- 29 Battle of St. Quentin Canal
October
November
See also
References
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/all.htm - comprehensive list of battles.
- http://www.spartacus-educational.com/FWWbattles.htm - supporting information and list of battles.
- http://uktv.co.uk/history/item/aid/595496
- Britannica Encyclopaedia - detailed information on many of the more significant battles.
- http://www.guidedbattlefieldtours.co.uk/education-resource/ - detailed information of battles
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, April 24, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.