World War I
See also: World War IBattle or Campaign | Order of Battle | Date |
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Allies of World War I | Army of Belgium, British Expeditionary Force, French Army of the third Republic, Indian Army | August 1914 |
Central Powers of World War I | Army of the German Empire | August 1914 |
Battle of Tannenberg | German Eighth Army and Russian Northwest Front | August 17 – September 1, 1914 |
Battle of Mons | British Expeditionary Force and German First Army | August 23, 1914 |
First Battle of the Marne | British Expeditionary Force,French army and German Army | 5 September – 12 September 1914 |
First Battle of Ypres | British Expeditionary Force, French Eighth Army, and German Fourth and Sixth Armies | October 19 – November 22, 1914 |
Battle of Dogger Bank | British and German Fleets | January 24, 1915 |
Battle of Jutland | British and German fleets | May, 1916 |
Battle of the Somme | British, Dominion and German forces | 1 July to 18 November 1916 |
Battle of Delville Wood | British, Dominion and German forces | 14 July to 3 September 1916 |
Battle of Vimy Ridge | Allied Canadian Corps and German Sixth Army | April 9–12, 1917 |
Battle of Caporetto | Italian Second Army and German/Austro-Hungarian Fourteenth Army | October 24 – November 19, 1917 |
Battle of Amiens | British Fourth, French First, and German Second and Eighteenth Armies | August 8, 1918 |
Battle of Megiddo (1918) | Allied and Ottoman armies | September 19 – October 1, 1918 |
Meuse-Argonne Offensive | American Expeditionary Force | September 26 – November 11, 1918 |
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