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Date Posted：01/11/2018 07:28:18Copy HTML Friday 1 November 1918. Western Front. Co-ordinated offensives by the British in Flanders and the Franco-Americans in the Meuse-Aisne sector. First use of mustard gas by the Americans. Battle of Vittorio Veneto. The Italians retake Belluno and Longarone as the Austrians evacuate the Asiago Plateau. Macedonia. Serbia is liberated, Belgrade is retaken as the last Austro-German troops cross the Danuge into Hungary. The former Austrian dreadnought battleship Viribis Unitis which had been handed over to the newly formed state of Yugoslavia the previous day and renamed Jugoslavija is sunk at anchor at Pola by mines laid on its hull by two Italian frogmen; around 350 killed. |
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：14/11/2018 11:38:09Copy HTML I think one of the biggest problems faced by the Indian troops was the extreme winters which they weren't a custom to on the western front. |
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：15/11/2018 08:53:21Copy HTML And yet the French used Senegalese, Algerians, Indo-Chinese etc on the Western Front throughout the war, they must have been horrified when winter arrived.
The Dutch actually gave permission for the unarmed Germans to return home via Limburg province (that "leg" of The Netherlands that extends south between Germany and Belgium) so they could put down the Revolution that threatened to infect all of Europe. However many in The Netherlands objected to the "invasion" and there was unrest in several cities. It didn't help that the Kaiser had been granted asylum by the Dutch government just days earlier.
There is evidence that Belgian agents were stirring up trouble in the area to gain control of Limburg with a renegotiation of the 1839 Treaty in which Belgium lost the eastern half of the province to The Netherlands.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：15/11/2018 09:20:09Copy HTML That's for explaining that a bit better Mark. |
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：16/11/2018 07:14:17Copy HTML Saturday 16 November 1918. The Hungarian People's Republic proclaimed with Mihaly Karolyi as President. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：17/11/2018 01:34:54Copy HTML Sunday 17 November 1918. The Anglo-French-US Army of Occupation begins its march east from the Armistice line to the German border. British and White Russian troops re-occupy Baku on the Caspian Sea two months after the Turks forced them out. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：18/11/2018 08:34:47Copy HTML Monday 18 November 1918. The last German troops leave French territory. The Allies enter Luxembourg. Admiral Alexander Kolchak proclaimed Supreme Ruler of White Russia at Omsk. His elevation is supported by the Allied Intervention forces. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：19/11/2018 09:08:29Copy HTML Tuesday 19 November 1918. The first of 160 German U-boats arrive at the North Sea port of Harwich to be interned. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：19/11/2018 10:59:17Copy HTML I imagine then they were cut up for scrap by the Anglais or did you save two and sell them to Canada.lol |
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：20/11/2018 09:15:42Copy HTML The original idea was that they'd be handed over to the victorious Allies, but nobody wanted them so the vast majority were scuttled in 1919. A few were kept as museum objects.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：20/11/2018 09:21:44Copy HTML I've an extra event for 19 November 1918. It was a huge disaster but one which is all but forgotten coming soon soon after the Armistice, any other time and it would still be talked about today. There's almost nothing on it on the internet even.
19 November 1918. A German ammunition train returning to Germany explodes at the Belgian-Dutch border town of Hamont. The town is practically destroyed along with a troop train also in the station. 1007 killed - yet I knew nothing about this until a few weeks ago.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：21/11/2018 12:10:39Copy HTML Why would they be taking ammunition back to Germany in the first place is my question. If they had turned over all their equipment as part of the agreement then what would they want the ammunition for in the first place if they didn't have the guns to fire it from. |
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：21/11/2018 08:40:22Copy HTML A good question. Many artillery pieces were handed over plus machine guns etc, but not all. I assume the Allies didn't actually want to use the surrendered weapons, just prevent the Germans from using them.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：21/11/2018 09:12:45Copy HTML And Hamont is on the border with The Netherlands which is an example of the Dutch unrest stemming from the passage of German troops through their country.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：21/11/2018 07:21:08Copy HTML Thursday 21 November 1918. Surrender of the German High Seas Fleet. Under the terms of the Armistice 75 warships were to be surrendered to the Allies until final disposal could be arranged. It was decided that they would be interned at Scapa Flow the Royal Navy base in the Orkney Islands off Scotland's north coast. Under the command of Rear Admiral Meurer the fleet sailed under escort to the Firth of Forth on 21 November where they were to lie at anchor for several days before sailing to their final destination. The fleet was made up of 11 battleships, five battlecruisers, eight cruisers and 50 destroyers (one destroyer, the V30, struck a mine en route and sank). The first Allied troops enter Constantinople, the French. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：21/11/2018 08:06:54Copy HTML Back in 1971, me and the lads were down in Cornwall on our bikes and I think I've told you in the past, we separated our cooperative money into three piles, petrol, booze and what was left went on food. Cornwall was almost empty in those days and we decided to pick lots to send one of us out on a Mackerel fishing trip, which was a cheap way of feeding us for two days. We OD'd on Mackerel. Anyway, I was the winner and off I went on this small fishing boat. I can't remember how it came about but somebody got the old Captain in conversation and off he went telling us of his service in the Royal Navy in WW1. All I can remember was him talking about how the Royal navy was lined up on both sides as the German fleet sailed between them, heading for Scapa Flow. All their canon was loaded and ready to fire, if the Krauts got funny but he told us how the old salt next to him was crying his eyes out with pride at the sight.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：22/11/2018 08:39:05Copy HTML Yes, it was only am Armistice so in theory the Germans could have started firing, but of course they were never going to. There were ships from other Allied navies there too to watch the Germans sail into captivity. By December the ships were at Scapa Flow and the submarines at Harwich.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：22/11/2018 09:12:23Copy HTML Germany had to surrender all her submarines but was permitted to retain six pre-Dreadnought battleships and six cruisers. All her destroyers were surrendered but she was allowed to build 12 new ones. She was prohibited from building any ships above 12,000 tons. There were to be no airships or naval aircraft. The idea was to prevent Germany from becoming a threat ever again, but to keep its navy strong enough to act as a counter-balance to Soviet Russia.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：22/11/2018 07:17:47Copy HTML Friday 22 November 1918. French troops enter a number of cities in Alsace, the province lost to Germany in 1871. Albert, King of the Belgians enters the capital Brussels, the city had been occupied by the Germans in August 1914. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：23/11/2018 07:05:44Copy HTML Saturday 23 November 1918. Italian troops occupy Innsbruck and Landeck in the Austrian Tyrol. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：24/11/2018 08:50:42Copy HTML Sunday 24 November 1918. The Allied armies halt at the German border. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：25/11/2018 08:59:57Copy HTML Monday 25 November 1918. Surrender of the last German Army in the field. Gen. von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of the German forces in East Africa, surrenders at Abercorn in Rhodesia. His force comprised just over 1300 men plus 1600 carriers and camp followers. He hands over one artillery piece, 37 machine guns and over 1000 rifles. The British Parliament dissolves prior to the General Election called for 14 December. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：26/11/2018 07:18:14Copy HTML Tuesday 26 November 1918. The last German troops leave Belgium. The first Allied troops cross the German border, the French. An Allied fleet arrives at Odessa and Sevastopol in the Black Sea to take control of the German warships and submarines, many of which were fomer Russian vessels surrendered earlier in the year. The Bolsheviks invade Estonia bombarding Narva. The Montenegrin Parliament votes for union with Serbia to create a new Kingdom of Yugoslavia, defying the wishes of King Nicholas of Montenego who has been in exile in Italy and finally France since 1916. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：28/11/2018 07:19:28Copy HTML Thursday 28 November 1918. The Bolsheviks capture the Estonian border town of Narva. The Gerneral Congress for Bukovina votes for union with Roumania. The former Austro-Hungarian province had been claimed by both Roumania and Ukraine. The People's State of Bavaria severs relations with Berlin. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：28/11/2018 07:22:17Copy HTML The People's State of Bavaria? Sounds very Soviet does that. So what were they up to Mark?
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：28/11/2018 07:29:31Copy HTML A short-lived Socialist government established in Munich after the King fled just before the Armistice. It's leader was Kurt Eisner. He aimed to create an independent Bavaria, but after a few months of near independence while the central government in Berlin wrestled with a Socialist uprising Bavaria eventually joined the Weimar Republic. Eisner didn't last long he was assassinated in February 1919 on his way to hand in his resignation.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：29/11/2018 07:57:56Copy HTML Eisner didn't last long he was assassinated in February 1919 on his way to hand in his resignation.
I had to laugh at that one.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：29/11/2018 08:57:22Copy HTML His assassin was a young German nobleman Anton, Count Arco auf Valley, he was a nationalist angered by Eisner's attempts to break up Germany. He was initially sentenced to death but had it reduced to five years imprisonment on appeal.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：29/11/2018 07:18:02Copy HTML Friday 29 November 1918. The King of Wurttemburg abdicates, the last of the autonomous German Princes to do so. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：World War I : November 1918 Date Posted：30/11/2018 07:05:00Copy HTML Saturday 30 November 1918. White-Allied army captures Korpayaskoi 200 miles south of Archangel. The Roumanian government returns to Bucharest. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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