THE GREAT WAR – FEBRUARY 1916

The Western Front

7^th Feb              British Royal Flying Corps arrive on the Western Front

8^th Feb               Britain requests Japanese naval assistance

9^th Feb                Jan Smuts appointed African Supreme Allied command

9^th Feb                British secure Lake Tanganyika

11^th Feb              Germany gives permission for U-boats to attack armed merchant ships

14^th Feb              Britain & France guarantee Belgian liberation and neutrality

15^th Feb              The Fifth Battle of Isonzo

18^th Feb              Mora in the Cameroons taken

18^th Feb              Italian Caproni bombers retaliate against Laibach

21^st Feb             Germany treats United States merchant ships as cruisers

22^nd Feb             President Wilson proposes peace conference

23^rd Feb              Portugal agrees to intern German vessels

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The Caucasus and Middle East

5^th Feb               Trebizond Campaign begins

7^th Feb                 Russia takes Mus

11^th Feb               Russian offensive of Erzincan

15^th Feb               Turkish forces abandon Erzincan

16^th Feb               Russian army captures Erzincan

26^th Feb               Russia takes Kermanshah

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Verdun

21^st Feb              Battle of Verdun begins

25^th Feb              Fort Douaumont captured by German troops

25^th Feb              Petain appointed as defender of Verdun

28^th Feb              End of German initial attack

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