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    Timeline

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:May 15, 2024
    • Post category:August 1914/Doctrine

    TimelineThe following timeline is not a comprehensive listing of all the events during the opening campaign of 1914, nor during the Battle at the Marne. Instead it lists those events…

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    Chasing the Great Retreat

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:April 12, 2024
    • Post category:August 1914/Books/Cavalry/Gus' Gear

    Today for Gus' Gear I am doing another book report. "Chasing the Great Retreat: The German Cavalry Pursuit of the British Expeditionary Force before the Battle of the Marne August…

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    The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914.”

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:April 5, 2024
    • Post category:August 1914/Books/Gus' Gear

    Today for Gus' Gear, as I am away from the collection, I have another book that I have been planning on doing a report on. It is another work of…

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    Belgium at the start of the war –part one

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:March 18, 2024
    • Post category:August 1914/Belgium

    Historians have not done justice to discussing the Belgian army at the start of World War I. It is sort of skipped over while Great thought is poured into what…

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    Handstreich!

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:March 8, 2024
    • Post category:August 1914/Great General Staff/Gus' Gear

    Another book report for Gus' Gear as I have run out of gear to post. This page is hosted by Col (ret) Joseph Robinson, who along with COL (ret) Janet…

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    Cavalry always seemed to keep their distance

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:February 23, 2024
    • Post category:Aleksander Lie/August 1914/Cavalry

    During the opening weeks of the war on the western front, when cavalry forces did encounter each other, they often dismounted and exchanged gunfire from a significant distance before withdrawing…

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    Aleksander’s Book Corner 

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:January 1, 2023
    • Post category:Aleksander Lie/Artillery/August 1914

    Incidents of friendly artillery fire in August 1914 Aleksander’s Book Corner Incidents of friendly artillery fire in August 1914   In this blog post we will have a look at…

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    ‘the emptiness of the battlefield’

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:November 7, 2022
    • Post category:Aleksander Lie/August 1914/Cavalry/Infantry/Training

    During the opening weeks of the war soldiers on all sides noted how empty the battlefields were. The Germans came up with a term to describe this; 'die Leere des…

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    Tore’s Tuesday. The evolution of the S84/98 bayonet.

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:September 15, 2020
    • Post category:August 1914/Great General Staff/Tore Mentyjærvi/Weapons

    Tore’s Tuesday. The evolution of the S84/98 bayonet. From a little used bayonet type, to becoming one of the most famous bayonets in the world.Today’s blog will mostly be about…

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    Falkenhayn Mobilizations

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:July 12, 2020
    • Post category:Armies/Army in general/August 1914

    As not a single person gave me a hint of what they wanted I am doing a subject that always fascinated me. This was heavily foot noted and attributed to…

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