The Great War: 100 Years Ago

The Christmas truce was 24 to 48 hour period where soldiers on the western front agreed to a limited ceasefire without the authorization of higher authorities.  The truce resulted in significant sections of the line mingling as soldiers used the time to… more »

The first of the new class of British Super Dreadnoughts, the HMS Queen Elizabeth is commisioned into the fleet today.  She was a huge ship for her time, displacing 36ktons loaded with a length of 196 meters at the waterline, and armed with the newly… more »

On 15 December Joffre, frustrated in his attempts to find a weak spot in the German line, choose Fernand de Langle de Cary's 4th Army as a tool to attack the German 3rd Army in Champagne. more »

A raid by light elements and battlecruisers of the High Seas Fleet on British coastal communities that caused significant civilian casualities.  The did not create an opportunity for the High Seas Fleet to attack portions of the British Grand Fleet, and… more »

One of the victories rarely discussed by modern historians, and in fact a mostly silent victory when it occurred, was the assembly of the Royal Army and its associated national forces into their wartime locations.    The limited peacetime planning made… more »