List of military engagements of World War I

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British battleship HMS Irresistible abandoned and sinking, 18 March 1915, during the Battle of Gallipoli.
For most of World War I, Allied and German Forces were stalled at trenches on the Western Front.

See also a chronological list of WW1 battles. This is a List of military engagements of World War I which encompasses land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localised to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war.

Western Front

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

Italian Campaign

Eastern Front

1914

1915

1916

1917

Caucasus Campaign

Serbian Campaign

Gallipoli Campaign

W Beach, Helles, on January 7, 1916, just prior to the final evacuation of British forces during the Gallipoli Campaign.

The Gallipoli Campaign (also called the "Dardanelles Campaign"), was a number of battles fought between 1915 and 1916.

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Sinai and Palestine Campaign

Mesopotamian Campaign

South Arabian Campaign

The Battle of The Chewmudder River

In this battle, The Germans tried to destroy the British troops when they were crossing the river when the British guns opened fire and killed 800 German troops.

African Campaign

Naval engagements

See also: Naval warfare of World War I

Atlantic Theatre

Mediterranean

Asia-Pacific Theatre

Air engagements

World War I was the first war to see major use of planes for offensive, defensive and reconnaissance operations, and both the Entente Powers and the Central Powers used planes extensively. Almost as soon as they were invented, planes were drafted for military service.

See also the following articles:

Contemporary wars

Some historians consider some of these wars as being part of World War I, as they are considered to have a direct connection to the start of the war, or having been caused by the aftermath.

Pre-1914

Post-1917

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