View Great Battles of World War I
* 1914 Liège August 4-17 - Germans invade Belgium; start of World War I
* 1914 Tannenberg August 26 - Samsonov’s Russian Second Army encircled and destroyed by the German Eighth Army
* 1915 Battle of Gallipoli February 19-January 8, 1916 The Allied powers attempt a failed frontal assault on the Ottoman Empire
* 1916 Battle of the Somme July - Four month battle, bloodiest in the first World War
* 1918 Battle of Meuse Argonne Forest, September 26-November 11 - Largest AEF action of war; Allied victory. (In it, October 8, Cpl. Alvin York, outnumbered 19:1, leads capture of German machine-gun nest)
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Category: World War I