List of military engagements of World War I
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A German trench in the swamp area near the Mazuric Lakes on the Eastern Front. Picture taken in February 1915, just before the German winter-offensive started in heavy snowstorms. |
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British battleship HMS Irresistible abandoned and sinking, 18 March 1915, during the Battle of Gallipoli. |
This is a
List of military engagements of World War I which encompasses land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localised to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the
First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war. Another example is the
Battle of Gallipoli (also called the "Dardanelles Campaign"), which in fact was a number of battles fought between 1915 and 1916.
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For most of World War I, Allied and German Forces were stalled at trenches on the Western Front. |
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First Battle of the Aisne*
Battle of Loos*
Battle of Liège*
Battle of the Ardennes*
Battle of the Frontiers*
Battle of Vimy Ridge*
First Battle of the Marne*
Siege of Antwerp*
Siege of Namur*
Siege of Maubeuge*
Battle of Le Cateau*
Battle of Mons*
Battle of Ginchy*
First Battle of Albert*
Battle of Guise*
First Battle of Arras*
First Battle of Ypres*
First Battle of Champagne*
Second Battle of Ypres*
Battle of Verdun*
Battle of Hulluch*
Battle of the Somme*
Battle of Cantigny*
Second Battle of the Aisne*
Battle of Cambrai*
Battle of Passchendaele or the "Third Battle of Ypres"
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Second Battle of the Marne*
Battle of Amiens August 1918
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Meuse-Argonne Offensive*
Third Battle of the Aisne*
First Battle of the Isonzo*
Second Battle of the Isonzo*
Third Battle of the Isonzo*
Fourth Battle of the Isonzo*
Fifth Battle of the Isonzo*
Trentino Offensive or the "Battle of Asiago"
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Sixth Battle of the Isonzo or the "Battle of Gorizia"
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Seventh Battle of the Isonzo*
Eighth Battle of the Isonzo*
Ninth Battle of the Isonzo*
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo*
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo*
Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo or the "Battle of Caporetto"
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Battle of the Piave River*
Battle of Vittorio Veneto*
Battle of Stalluponen*
Battle of Gumbinnen*
Battle of Tannenberg*
Battle of Lemberg (1914)*
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes*
Siege of Przemysl*
Battle of the Vistula River*
Battle of Łódź (1914)*
Battle of Bolimov*
Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes*
Battle of Warsaw (1915)*
Brusilov Offensive*
Russian Revolution*
Battle of Sarikamis*
Battle of Malazgirt (1915)*
Battle of Kara Killisse*
Battle of Koprukoy*
Battle of Erzurum*
Battle of ErzincanSerbia
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Battle of Cer*
Battle of Kolubara |
W Beach, Helles, on January 7, 1916, just prior to the final evacuation of British forces during the Battle of Gallipoli. |
The
Battle of Gallipoli (also called the "Dardanelles Campaign"), was in fact a number of battles fought between 1915 and 1916.
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Battle of the Nek*
Battle of Chunuk Bair*
Battle of Gully Ravine*
Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli)*
Battle of Krithia Vineyard*
Battle of Lone Pine*
Battle of Sari Bair*
Battle of Scimitar Hill*
Landing at Anzac Cove*
Landing at Cape Helles*
First Battle of Krithia*
Second Battle of Krithia*
Third Battle of Krithia*
Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign*
First Suez Offensive*
Battle of Romani or "The Second Suez Offensive"
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Battle of Magdhaba*
Battle of Rafa*
Battle of Mughar Ridge*
Battle of Jerusalem*
Fall of Damascus*
Battle of Aleppo*
First Battle of Gaza*
Second Battle of Gaza*
Third Battle of Gaza or the "Battle of Beersheba"
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Battle of Beersheba*
Battle of Megiddo*
Fao Landing*
Fall of Basra*
Battle of Qurna*
Capture of Amara *
Battle of Nasiriyeh*
Battle of Es Sinn*
Battle of Ctesiphon*
Siege of Kut**
Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad**
Battle of the Wadi**
Battle of Hanna**
Battle of Dujaila Redoubt**
First Battle of Kut*
Battle of Khanaqin*
Second Battle of Kut*
Fall of Baghdad*
Samarrah Offensive*
Battle of Jebel Hamlin*
Battle of Istabulat*
Battle of Ramadi*
Capture of Tikrit*
Battle of SharqatSouth Arabian Campaign
Battle of Happy Cat vs. Rude Kitty
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Fall of Cameroon*
Fall of German West Africa (Namibia)
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Battle of Killimanjaro*
Fall of Togo*
Battle of Tanga or Battle of the Bees
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Battle of Ruji Delta*
Battle of LongidoSee also: Naval warfare of World War I*
First Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)
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Battle of the Falkland Islands (1914)
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Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)*
Otranto Barrage (1915-1918)
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Battle of Jutland (1916)
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Battle of Dover Strait (1917)
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Second Battle of Heligoland Bight (1917)
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Raid on Scarbourough and Hartlepool*
Raid on ZeebrugeMediterranean
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Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau (1914)
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Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign (1915-1916)
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Battle of Friju Island (1914)
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Battle of New Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelmland)
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Battle of Tsingtao (1914)
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Battle of Penang (1914)
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Battle of Coronel (1914)
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Battle of Cocos (1914)
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Battle of the Falkland Islands (1914)''
World War I was the first war to see major use of planes for offensive, defensive and reconnaissance operations, and both the
Entente Powers and the
Central Powers used planes extensively. Almost as soon as they were invented, planes were drafted for military service.
See also the following articles:*
Aviation in World War I*
Aviation history (1914-1918)*
Flying aces*
List of World War I flying aces*
World War I aircraft*
Zeppelins in World War ISome historians consider some of these wars as being part of World War I, as they are considered to have a direct connection to the start of the war, or having been caused by the aftermath.
Pre-1914
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First Balkan War (1912-1913)
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Second Balkan War (1913)
Post-1917
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Russian Civil War (1918-1922)
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North Russia Campaign (1918-1919)
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Russian westward offensive of 1918-1919*
Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921)
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Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)Main articles
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