"The Unknown Daring Midnight Raid that started WW1" Topic
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| Tango01 | 03 Aug 2015 3:53 p.m. PST |
"Most people think the first battle of World War One took place on 5 August 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium. The first fighting, however, occurred nine days earlier on the night of 28 July, mere hours after Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia. This battle was an amphibious assault meant to capture the Serbian capital of Belgrade. The Austro-Hungarian declaration of war arrived in Serbia via open telegram around noon on 28 July, and all of Belgrade soon knew its contents. Shops closed as people rushed to hoard food and supplies. Rumors that the city's water supply would be turned off prompted crowds to form around the many public fountains. The Chief of the General Staff, Vojvoda Radomir Putnik, was at a spa in Austria-Hungary with the key to the safe holding Serbia's mobilization plans; the safe had to be dynamited open…"
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| tuscaloosa | 19 Aug 2015 8:00 p.m. PST |
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adds a machinegun platoon to his WWI Brits.