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APRIL MAY JUNE
APRIL.
April 5th, 1917 United States declares war on Germany.
9th, 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge begins.
9th, 1918 Battle of the Lys begins.
14th, 1918 General Foch appointed Generalissimo of the Allied Armies in
France.
22nd, 1915 Second Battle of Ypres begins. Germans use asphyxiating
gases.
22nd, 1918 British Naval attack on Zeebrugge and Ostend.
24th, 1916 Rebellion in Ireland.
25th, 1915 Allied forces land in Gallipoli.
27th, 1915 General Sir Herbert Plumer given command of all troops in the
Ypres Salient.
29th, 1916 Fall of Kut.
MAY.
May 7th, 1915 The Lu&itania torpedoed and sunk by the Germans.
12th, 1915 Windhoek, capital of German South-West Africa, captured by
General Botha.
19th, 1918 Germans bomb British hospitals at Etaples.
23rd, 1915 Italy declares war on Austria.
31st, 1916 Sea battle off the coast of Jutland.
JUNE.
June 5th, 1916 Loss of Earl Kitchener on H.M.S. Hampshire
7th, 1915 Flight-Lieut. Warneford attacks and destroys Zeppelin between
Ghent and Brussels.
7th, 1917 British victory at Messines Ridge.
29th, 1917 General Allenby in command in Egypt.
