The Great War: 100 Years Ago

Kitchener's Army was an innovative method to rapidly expand the British army in the first days of the Great War.  When completed it would provide 30 divisions to the 60 division British Expenditionary Force and would prove to be an essential element in… more »

The last of the Liege forts fall.  While the city of Liege surrendered early in the battle of Liege, the Liege forts continued to fight.  They were reduced one by one using Krupp L/12 420-millimetre M-Gerät 14 Kurze Marine-Kanone and… more »

With the Austria-Hungary empire at war with Russia, France and the UK declare war in return.  The original causes of the war, troubles in the Balkans, have now been overshadowed by rapid responses to treaties and percieved national slights. more »

With the Russian Army well on its way to mobilization in support of Serbia, Austria-Hungary declares war. more »

Dr. Fritz Haber, a German physical chemist, had been working just prior to the start of the Great War on a means of converting an industrial bioproduct, chlorine, to weaponized uses.  All of the Allies and Entente powers had signed the Hague Convention… more »