Tag Archive for Caucasus

PLANNING THE WAR OF 1919

War Almost Over, but Can They See It? What About Bolshevik Russia? Allies Dismembering the Russian Empire Special to The Great War Project. (27 August) American troops have landed at Russia’s far eastern port at Vladivostok. Russia is once again in play. The date is August 16th a century ago, according to historian Martin Gilbert.…

VERDUN BLOODLETTING CONTINUES.

 British Reinforcement Fails at Siege of Kut. Russians Advance in Caucasus; Covert War in Persia. Special to The Great War Project (29 February-3 March) “Like a vision of hell.” That’s the way one German general describes the wounded German soldiers streaming past his headquarters on the battlefield at Verdun on the Western Front, 100 years…

RUSSIAN COSSACKS OVERRUN TURKISH CITY

Ottomans Stunned at Fall of Erzurum on Caucasus Front; Relentless Turkish Siege of British at Kut . Special to The Great War Project. (16-19 February) In the Mesopotamian [Iraqi] desert, the Turks tighten their deadly noose around the small and increasingly hungry British and Indian troops at Kut. In mid-February 1916, precisely a century ago,…

ENVER PASHA DREAMS OF HOLY WAR

Two Different Faces of God at War in the Caucasus. Turkey Unprepared for Winter War; Not So Russia. Special to The Great War Project (29-30-31 December) The German plot to ignite a holy war against the British and Russians in the Middle East and Central Asia is so far a failure. But in the rugged…

NEW FRONTS IN AN EVER-WIDENING WAR

Austria Attacks in Serbia; Russia in the Caucasus Special to The Great War Project (30 November-1 December) Austria takes Belgrade today a century ago. Since the beginning of the war in early August, Austria-Hungary has but one crucial goal – to occupy Serbia and extract revenge for the killing of Austria’s heir-apparent, the Archduke Franz…