English: The british ocean liner Olympic, sister ship of the ill-fated Titanic, as a troopship during WW1, loaded with American troops homeward bound.

Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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mania signs preliminary treaty with CentralPowers. March 6—United States troops hold 4% miles of battie front somewhere in France. ■—On Lorraine front United States forces bombardand obliterate over a mile of German trenches. —United States casualty list shows: Killed in ac-tion, 19; from gas, 2; in aero accidents, 2; autoaccident, 1; of disease, 13; severely wounded, 26;slightly wounded, 36. —Russian capital moves from Petrograd to Moscow. —British forces in Palestine advance about a mileand three-quarters on 12-mile front. March 10—United States War Department announcespresence of Americans on Lorraine front, in Cham-pagne, in Alsace, near Luneville, and in Aisne sec-tor. March 11—United States troops go over the top atToul and return without loss. —President Wilson sends message to Congress ofSoviets, expresses sympathy with Russian people;says United States will take every opportunity tosecure for Russia complete sovereignty and inde-pendence. WAR CYCLOPAEDIA 451
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The transport Olympic, loaded with American troops homeward bound. •152 THE PEOPLES WAE BOOK ^In Toul sector United States artillery discover andblow to pieces German gas projectors, upsettingplans for gas attack. —Paris Court of Revision rejects Bolo Pashas ap-peal from death sentence. March 13—German Government announces Americanproperty in Germany will be seized in reprisal torseizure of German property in the United States. —Phelps Collins of Detroit. Mich., member of La-fayette Flying Corps, killed in air fight on Frenchfront. March 14—Gen. Pershings men make first permanentadvance, occupy evacuated trenches northeast ofBadonvillers. —David E. Putnam of Brookline, Mass., of Lafay-ette Escadrille, attacks 3 enemy planes, brings down1, drives 2 to flight. —United States destroyer Manley collides with Brit-ish warship in European waters; depth bomb ex-plodes, kills Lieut. Commander Richard M. ElliottJr. and 15 enlisted men; Manley reaches port. March 21—Beginn

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