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The Battles Battles
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section contains details of the significant battles and action fought during the First World War.

Given the number of actions involved, each has been categorised by its theatre of operation: thus the Somme offensive is listed within the 'Western Front', whereas Tannenberg can be found within 'Eastern Front'.

Categories currently available are:

	The Western Front (click here) Includes struggles at Verdun, Ypres and the Somme
	The Eastern Front (click here) Includes the Russian calamity at Tannenberg
	The Gallipoli Front (click here) Failed Allied campaign for the peninsular
	The Italian Front (click here) The many and varied battles of the Isonzo
	The Palestine Front (click here) The Suez and the Allied march on Jerusalem
	The Mesopotamian Front (click here) Includes the innumerable struggles around Kut
	The African Wars (click here) How Lettow-Vorbeck evaded the Allies for four years
	The War at Sea (click here) Including the biggest naval battle of all, Jutland
	All Battles by Date (click here) Complete listing of all battles and actions

Within each category the battles are listed in date order, and include some of the landmark offensives of the war, such as the disastrous British attack at the Somme, and the monumental French defence at Verdun.

Over time additional battle entries will be added, and will include details of all of the signature offensives; however many lesser known actions will similarly be documented.

	Principal Actions of World War One (click here) List of primary events, actions and offensives
	Who Declared War and When (click here) Rundown of war declarations by nation
	Military Casualties (click here) Numbers of dead, wounded and missing by country
	The Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918 (click here) Overview of U.S. involvement at Meuse-Argonne

Russia mobilised 12 million men during the war; France 8.4 million; Britain 8.9 million; Germany 11 million; Austria-Hungary 7.8 million; Italy 5.6 million; and the USA 4.3 million.