y 21--German submarine sinks three barges off Cape Cod.
Aug. 3--Allies sweep on between Soissons and Rheims, driving the enemy
from his base at Fismes and capturing the entire Aisne-Vesle front.
Aug. 7--Franco-American troops cross the Vesle.
Aug. 8--New Allied drive begun by Field-Marshal Haig in Picardy,
penetrating enemy front 14 miles.
Aug. 10--Montdidier recaptured.
Aug. 29--Noyon and Bapaume fall in new Allied advance.
Sept. 1--Australians take Peronne.
Sept. 1--Americans fight for the first time on Belgian soil and capture
Voormezeele.
Sept. 11--Germans are driven back to the Hindenburg line which they held
in November, 1917.
Sept. 14--St. Mihiel recaptured from Germans. General Pershing announces
entire St. Mihiel salient erased, liberating more than 150 square miles
of French territory which had been in German hands since 1914.
Sept. 20--Nazareth occupied by British forces in Palestine under Gen.
Allenby.
Sept. 23--Bulgarian armies flee before combined attacks of British,
Greek, Serbian, Italian and French.
Sept. 26--Strumnitza, Bulgaria, occupied by Allies.
Sept. 27--Franco-Americans in drive from Rheims to Verdun take 30,000
prisoners.
Sept. 28--Belgians attack enemy from Ypres to North Sea, gaining four
miles.
Sept. 29--Bulgaria surrenders to Gen. d'Esperey, the Allied commander.
Oct. 1--St. Quentin, cornerstone of Hindenburg line, captured.
Oct. 1--Damascus occupied by British in Palestine campaign.
Oct. 3--Albania cleared of Austrians by Italians.
Oct. 4--Ferdinand, king of Bulgaria, abdicates; Boris succeeds.
Oct. 5--Prince Maximilian, new German Chancellor, pleads with President
Wilson to ask Allies for armistice.
Oct. 9--Cambrai in Allied hands.
Oct. 10--"Leinster," passenger steamer, sunk in Irish Channel by
submarine; 480 lives lost; final German atrocity at sea.
Oct. 11--- Americans advance through Argonne forest.
Oct. 12--German foreign secretary, Solf, says plea for armistice is made
in name of German people; agrees to evacuate all foreign soil.
Oct. 13--Laon and La Fere abandoned by Germans.
Oct. 13--Grandpre captured by Americans after four days' battle.
Oct. 14--President Wilson refers Germans to General Foch for armistice
terms.
Oct. 17--Ostend, German submarine base, taken by land and sea forces.
Oct. 19--Bruges and Zeebrugge taken by Belgians and British.
Oct. 25--Beginning of terrific Italian drive which nets 50,000 prisoners
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