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INTRODUCTION
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
The Chief Events connected with the War, between the Signing of the Armistice on the 11th November 1918 and the Signature on the 28th June 1919 of the Treaty of Peace with Germany.
1918
1919
1920
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V
APPENDIX VI
APPENDIX VII
INDEX
A CONCISE CHRONICLE OF EVENTS
OF THE GREAT WAR
A CONCISE CHRONICLE
OF EVENTS OF
THE GREAT WAR
BY
R. P. P. ROWE
M.A. (OXON), CAPTAIN, LATE OF THE
ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT AND OF THE
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE
LONDON
PHILIP ALLAN AND CO.
QUALITY COURT, CHANCERY LANE
MCMXX
INTRODUCTION
I trust that this chronicle of the chief events of the warwill prove a useful and an interesting record. It has beendecided to omit maps, because their inclusion withinbounds less than cumbersome would prove practicallyworthless. The number of towns, as opposed to villages,which were definitely connected with the war is surprisinglysmall, and their locality is known to nearly every one.The great majority of places which the war has broughtinto prominence are villages so small that they are markedonly in maps of an exceptionally large scale. What isrequired, therefore, for adequate study of the topographyof the war, is either a moderate number of maps of greatsize or a far larger and confusing number less bulky buteach covering only a small area. As the inclusion of eitherwould necessitate a detached and cumbrous volume, I havein its absence taken pains to indicate accurately the positionof every place whose locality might be unfamiliar.
In the following pages the names given to the battles,and the dates on which they began and ended, are fromsources either official or authoritative. The same may besaid of the strategical or tactical aims or results which Ihave in some cases noted—particularly in 1918.
As appendices I have chosen the four documents mostclosely connected with the ou