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  • Caporetto, Kobarid (Italy and Solvania)
    Friday Oct 26, 1917
    World War 1

    Central Powers Spearhead

    Caporetto, Kobarid (Italy and Solvania)
    Friday Oct 26, 1917

    The Central Powers launched a crushing offensive on 26 October 1917, spearheaded by the Germans, and achieved a victory at Caporetto (Kobarid).




  • Beersheba, (Syria this time)
    Wednesday Oct 31, 1917
    World War 1

    Battle of Beersheba

    Beersheba, (Syria this time)
    Wednesday Oct 31, 1917

    At the end of October, the Sinai and Palestine Campaign resumed, when General Edmund Allenby's XXth Corps, XXI Corps and Desert Mounted Corps (British Crops) won the Battle of Beersheba. Two Ottoman armies were defeated a few weeks later at the Battle of Mughar Ridge.




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