Western Front
Battle of Amiens (see 11th): Rawlinson asks Haig ‘Are you commanding the British Army or is Marshal Foch?’ and gets Amiens thrust ended; he has 85 tanks (30 knocked out) in action (38 on August 11, 6 on August 12).
RAF Amiens offensive bombing switches to railways as well, 90 extra fighters bring strength to 480, but Peronne station raid costs 6 of 52 aircraft involved (Peronne attacked 3 times, August 11). Oblt Erich Lowenhardt (53 victories) killed in mid-air collision (Germany’s third ranking ace), one of 15 aircraft lost (38 Allied planes claimed). Captain A Yuille (Sopwith Camel, No 151 Squadron) shoots down first Giant bomber behind British lines near Talmas (night August 10-11).
British tanks going through the town of Hourges at the Battle of Amiens: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...534986851835904
Canadian armored car in action at the Battle of Amiens: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...611777008316416
The ruins of Chipilly a day after it was taken by the Americans during the Battle of Amiens: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...872356050640897
Battle of Montdidier (see 15th): Montdidier retaken by French forces (see 8th, and March 27th). Montdidier garrison surrounded and captured by French First Army in 7-mile-advance. 7 new German divisions arrive, drunken Bavarians shout at 38th Division ‘What do you war-prolongers want ?’. The Victoria Cross is awarded to Captain F.M.F. West of No.8 Squadron, Royal Air Force, for gallantry displayed during a low-level attack on German troops far over enemy lines north east of Roye in France, with the co-operation of the Tank Corps.
Second Battle of Lassigny: French Third Army (7 divisions) drives 3-4 miles northeast into German Eighteenth Army flank below Montdidier in (until August 22).
France: Total Allied PoW haul since August 8: 24,000, plus over 400 guns. US First Army operational under Pershing; Colonel Hugh A Drum CoS. AEF combat strength 822,358. Churchill (flew to France on August 8) at BEF GHQ Shell conference.
A carrier pigeon is released from a tank near Albert, France: © IWM (Q 9247): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...580289122488326
British cavalry passing through Beaucourt-en-Santerre, as they pursue retreating German troops: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...595393222234113
Australian soldiers at Crepy Wood during their attack against Lihons: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...902596147830784

Eastern Front
Russia: Lenin orders anti-German screen troops to Volga despite Trotsky’s doubts (still 37 German divisions in east).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Czechs and 400 Cossacks repulse 5,000 Reds in Stepanovka-Kraevsk area.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Western Atlantic: U-boat gas attack on US Coast Guard station and lighthouse, Smith Island, NC.
As reported in the US Press at the time: August 13, 1918: "German submarine terrorism on a more intensive scale was disclosed tonight when the Navy Department announced that one of the U-boats operating on this coast had made a mustard gas attack off North Carolina. It is probably the same submarine that sank the Cape Hatteras lightship.
This attack was made about 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mustard gas oil was released on the tides which swept in past Smith Island. The gas generated by the floating oil, which is vary volatile in the hot sunshine, temporarily put the coast guard station and lighthouse personnel on Smith Island out of commission. Six men were gassed, but no deaths resulted.
Information from the Coast Guard Station on Smith Island, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, tonight, is that none of the victims of the gas there on Saturday afternoon suffered serious injury. Those who suffered at the lighthouse were the keeper, Captain Charles Swann, his wife and one other, composing the entire crew of the lighthouse, while three of the Coast Guards suffered. A brood of chickens on the reservation was killed, and other animals on the place showed signs of the gas." (New York Times)
North Sea: Harwich Force (4 cruisers and 13 destroyers) off Western Frisian Islands launches 6 CMBs to attack German minesweepers across minefields, but all lost to German seaplane attacks (1 lost), other aim of trapping Zeppelin achieved.
Mediterranean: French troopship SS Polynesien is sunk by the German submarine SM UC-22, resulting in 19 deaths. The ship was carrying Serbian soldier Milunka Savić, one of the most decorated female soldiers in history, who survived the sinking: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...842031962521600

Political, etc
Turkey: Mushaver ul Mamalek, Persian Foreign Minister, resigns (see 11th and January 19th).

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Western Front
Battle of Amiens: Battle comes to a close, as the initial Allied gains have slowed, and Haig finally recognizes the futility of throwing men against fortified positions.
Battle of Montdidier (see 15th): Allied advance between River Avre and and River Oise reaches line Armancourt (south-west of Roye), Tilloy, Cambronne (between Metz and Oise).
British air-raid on Karlsruhe.
France: 9 German bombers raid Calais, cause 47 military and 13 civilian casualties, 100 vehicles destroyed and fire spreads to spare parts worth £ 1 1/4 million for 19,566 BEF motor vehicles.
Western Front, Air: Germans claim 38 Allied planes for loss of 15.
9,074 Canadian casualties since August 8.
Germany: Although counter-attack now stabilizing Amiens-Montdidier line, Ludendorff offers resignation to Kaiser who refuses but replies ‘… we must strike a balance. We have nearly reached the limit of our powers of resistance. The war must be ended.’
The Last Attack: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...nsive.jpg?ssl=1
German prisoners and British soldiers at a dressing station near Chipilly: © IWM (Q 6943): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...932781941350400
Erich Löwenhardt, killed in mid-air collision yesterday over France at the age of 21: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...947813626363904
King George V inspects a tank demonstration at Sautricourt: © IWM (Q 11144):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...963000819523584
Canadian Field Ambulance Men putting on their gas masks during the Battle of Amiens: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...205647979012096
Wounded British soldiers waiting to be evacuated at Le Quesnel: © IWM (Q 7297): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...237104617345024
Canadian soldiers returning on a tank at Amiens: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...267316209954817

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: First Japanese contingents arrive at Vladivostok (see 2nd and 24th and September 5th).
Grigory Semenov’s forces defeat Bolsheviks north of Manchuria Station.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: German airship L-53 destroyed off Frisian coast. (Last German airship to be destroyed in the war); this is in connection with the overnight raid of British coastal motor boats on German minesweeping forces. L-53 was shot down by by Stuart Culley in Sopwith Camel launched to 19,000ft from a lighter towed by British destroyer Redoubt.
The L-53: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...297507913310208
Germany: Reinhard Scheer replaces Henning von Holtzendorff as CNS. Franz von Hipper to command High Seas Fleet. Hindenburg and Ludendorff tell Scheer on August 12 that only U-boats can win the war.

Political, etc
Russia: Arrival of German Embassy (Helfferich) from Moscow at Pskov.
United Kingdom: American soldiers arriving at Liverpool on the Chinese troopship Elpenor: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...174238623182848
Turkey: Mushaver ul Mamalek reappointed Persian Foreign Minister (see 10th).

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Western Front
Battle of Montdidier (see 15th): Lull in operations (until August 20), Australians take Proyart. King George decorates US 33rd Division Doughboys.
Allied advances continue with the “Hundred Days Offensive,” as mobile warfare resumes on the Western Front: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...661151591227393
Germany: Kaiser relieves Crown Princes William and Rupprecht of Ninth, Eighteenth and Second Armies, all heavily engaged at Amiens and formed into Boehn’s new Army Group (until October 31) whose Seventh Army goes to Magnus von Eberhardt.
British soldiers extinguishing a fire caused by German air raid against Calais: © IWM (Q 11222): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...569299689136128
French troops accepting a cigarette from a Canadian soldier at the Battle of Amiens: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...599493263065089
Canadian medics passing by a tank during the Battle of Amiens: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...629693795319809

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Georgia: Bicherakov (c.2,200 men) captures Derbent; Red warship foils Dunsterville’s bid to recall him.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: British 10th and 60th divisions’ raids on Gharabe Ridge (164 casualties) and east of Nablus road cause 570 casualties and take 14 MGs (over 239 Turkish PoWs). Lawrence and Lieutenant-Colonel Joyce meet Buxton’s force at El Jefir east of Hejaz Railway, reach Azrak in armored car on August 14.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Eastern Mediterranean: U-boat sinks British transport Anhui (4 die) off Cyprus.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: 30,000 see British Scientific Products Exhibition (250 firms) in London (until September 7).
Italy: Speech of Sr. Giovanni Giolitti on reconstruction after War.
United States: Liquor sale ban on railways.

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Western Front
Battle of Montdidier (see 15th): French capture Belval (1.5 miles south from Lassigny).
Fifty Sopwith Camel fighters (including No 17 US Aero Squadron) mount a surprise raid on Varssenaere airfield west of Bruges, destroy 28-38 aircraft.
German guns captured by the Australians at the Battle of Amiens: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...920360362823680
American troops forming up as they prepare to advance following an artillery barrage against German positions near St. Barbe: © IWM (Q 69956): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...950553668280320
Soldiers from the British Army Service Corps help French women with the harvest at Cayeux: © IWM (Q 11229): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...980756830466050
Lothar von Richthofen, brother of Manfred von Richthofen (Red Baron) and German ace with 40 victories, is shot down and wounded for the third time. Lothar survives, but he is seriously injured and does not fly for the duration of the war. https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...012265314467840

Eastern Front
Volga: Stalin declares state of siege at Tsaritsyn, bourgeoisie to dig trenches.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Convoy escort armed trawlers depth charge and sink coastal submarine UB-30 off Whitby.
Mediterranean: 17 destroyer-escorted fast storeships from USA have docked at French ports, via Spanish waters, since July 1, 4000t per day discharged by autumn.
Italy: Italian Navy deliberately sinks the outdated cruiser Etruria to make it seem Austro-Hungarian agents (turned double agents by Italy) were successful in their sabotage: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...997168877772800

Political, etc
Among Allied Powers: The Czechoslovaks declare War on Germany. [October 28th is officially accepted as the date of entry into the war of Czechoslovakia as a belligerent nation. This was the date of the declaration of independence at Prague. On August 13th the declaration was made in the name of the Czechoslovaks as a people.]
Germany: Admiral Eduard von Capelle, German Minister of Marine, resigns (see 15th and March 15th, 1916). [note: there is confusion over the exact date: although his resignation was engineered by Erich von Ludendorff, and seems to have been requested in August, other sources state that he didn’t retire until October. It is possible that he tendered his resignation in August, but didn’t make it effective until his October retirement. Whatever the actual date of his retirement, his successor was Paul Behncke.]
At Spa Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Prince Max von Baden, Chancellor and Foreign Minister, agree war cannot be ended militarily.
Russia: Release of Messrs. Lockhart and Wardrop.
Appeal of General Mikhail Dieterichs to Allied Naval and Military Commanders at Vladivostok for help.
United Kingdom: British Government recognize the Czechoslovaks as an Allied nation (see June 3rd and September 3rd).

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Western Front
Battle of Montdidier (see 15th): German retreat from River Ancre begins; evacuation of Beaumont-Hamel, Serre, Puisieux, Bucquoy. North of Oise French capture Ribecourt.
Lys salient British establish posts south and east of Vieux Berquin (60 miles east-south-east of Hazelbrouck).
French soldiers in their trenches: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...raben.jpg?ssl=1
RAF has flown 700 sorties and dropped 571 bombs on bridges (mainly 112lb) since August 8 without inflicting serious damage. Rene Fonck destroys 3 German aircraft (8 admitted losses for 29 Allied).
Armenian refugees at an American military hospital in Paris: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...027378293612545
A French sailor and a British soldier with two women on a beach at Cayeux: © IWM (Q 11480): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...042481290203137
British cavalry near Demuin: © IWM (Q 78691): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...284030561366016

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Nos 144 and 45 Squadrons reinforce RAF.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique: Germans 60 miles inland from coast at Angoche.

Political, etc
Germany: Ludendorff recommends immediate peace negotiations. Emperor Charles and Kaiser meet for last time at Spa, Arz warns ‘Austria-Hungary could only continue the war until December’; Austrians plead for peace. Kaiser instructs Hintze to seek Queen of Holland’s mediation but only to aid German recovery.
United Kingdom: Allied Propaganda Conference, at Crewe House, London (until August 17) opened by Northcliffe.

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Western Front
Battle of Montdidier (see 15th): French complete capture of Lassigny Massif by capture of Alliche farm. British cross Ancre to Thiepval Wood and make progress between Beaucourt (north of Albert) and Puisieux (north-east of Beaucourt). Battle of Montdidier ends (see 8th).
Haig refuses to obey Foch’s order from August 11 for attack on Roye-Chaulnes, but will attack north of Somme (c. August 21).
Last bombardment of Paris by German long-range gun (see March 23rd).
Rupprecht warns Prince Max of Baden ‘Our military situation has deteriorated so rapidly that I no longer believe we can hold out over the winter; it is even possible that a catastrophe will come earlier.’
A Canadian 60-pounder battery in action, August 1918: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...under.jpg?ssl=1
Western Front, Air: German fighters break up Allied formations, claim 25 Allied aircraft for 4 lost.
British troops in the damaged neighborhoods of Caix: © IWM (Q 61209): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...315461731835904
British Royal Engineers constructing a railway in the destroyed town of Villers-Bretonneux: © IWM (Q 56897): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...345668790472704
Australian soldiers digging a trench at Proyart: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...375865627529216
Ruins of Morlancourt after its capture by the Allies: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...677850473975808
British soldiers of the Directorate of Agricultural Production tending to cabbages near Vimy Ridge: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...754615976407046
Phosphorous bombs go off at night at Gondrecourt-le-Château: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...845202813562880

Eastern Front
Kuban: White “Volunteer” Army captures capital Ekaterinodar (Denikin enters on August 16).

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Azerbaijan: Action of Bairam Ali (Trans-Caspia): Trans-Caspian Government defeated by Bolshevik forces.
Georgia: Announcement of British troops at Baku (on west of Caspian Sea) and at Krasnovodsk (on east of Caspian, terminus of Central Asiatic Railway).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Heavy shelling exchanged between Red field batteries (until August 17) on August 16 and HMS Suffolk 12-pounder in armored train. Siberian Regional Duma meets in Tomsk.
First American troops land in Vladivostok, joining Japanese, British, and French troops in the intervention against the Bolsheviks.
Bactrian camels used to pull sleds in Siberia for the British troops participating in the intervention against the Bolsheviks: ©IWM (Q 114808): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...406076217819136

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Harwich Force destroyers Ullswater and Scott sunk (torpedo and mine respectively) escorting Dutch convoy.
A painting of HMS Ulleswater sinking by Charles Pears: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...739516192546817

Political, etc
Germany: Vice-Admiral Paul von Behnke appointed German Minister of Marine (see 13th).
Meeting of Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Charles at Main Headquarters.
United Kingdom: Portuguese and British soldiers at a sports meet at Horsham, England: © IWM (Q 28083): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...709309440086018
United States: Relations between U.S.A. and Bolshevist Government in Russia severed.
Spain: Spanish Note to Germany re: shipping losses.

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Western Front
The first massed low level attack by the Royal Flying Corps on an enemy airfield is carried out, when 65 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5s, Sopwith Camels, Bristol Fighters and de Havilland D.H.4s attack the German aerodrome at Haubourdin. No British aircraft are lost.
Anglo-French advance on Roye progresses.
German counter-attack at Damery (north-west of Roye) repulsed.
New German Fokker D-VIII (originally designated the E-V) parasol monoplane fighter (Jasta 6) scores first victory out of 18 claimed.
Fokker D-VIII: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...dviii.jpg?ssl=1
Germany: First RAF raid on Darmstadt by No 55 Squadron, 3 D.H.4s lost to fighters.
Pershing requests return of 3 out of 5 US divisions training with BEF.

Eastern Front
Northern Russia: Whites occupy Shenkursk, 175 miles south-south-east of Archangel.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Japanese General Otani commanding Allied expedition, arrives at Vladivostok.
Sir Charles Eliot appointed British High Commissioner in Siberia.
Czechs foil Red landing attempt on Lake Khanka. Regnault (ex-French Tokyo Ambassador) made Allied representative at Vladivostok (August 21).

Political, etc
Russia: Vladimir Lenin tells Moscow Party that young people must be won over.
Slovenia: National Yugoslav Council Meeting at Laibach.

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