Germany · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The war on the Western Front, head of a group of cavalry divisions, does not lend itself well to cavalry as a form of offensive warfare, as he discovers at the Battle of Haelen in Belgium (the first cavalry engagement of the War)
Maximilian von Prittwitzs orders were very clear, his German Eighth Army was to remain in its positions in East Prussia, without attempting any offensive action, as all German efforts were to be concentrated on the Western Front against France
Poison gas is first used on the Western Front, in a German attack on Canadian troops at Ypres
Germany agrees to the armistice & firing stops on the western front at 11 am
With the Spring Offensive Ludendorff expects to breakthrough on the Western Front but this ends in failure & Ludendorff realises that Germany will lose the war
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