Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Further advance on German positions west of Cambrai; British attack Bourlon Wood. British 40th Division attack, with 62 tanks (16 lost, 5 to German anti-aircraft guns) and 432 guns vs 200 German guns, reaches crest but fails to reach village.
German truck (lorry) -mounted flak guns stiffen defence of Fontaine. 50 Royal Flying Corps aircraft (15 wrecked) support BEF ground attack, but Richthofen now in command of sector and shoots down DH5 in Bourion Wood. 3 RFC day bomber squadrons attack six targets.
British Mark IV tank passing by captured German artillery guns at the Battle of Cambrai: © IWM (Q 6336): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...662699208273920
Ypres: British attack in the night and advance on line south-east of Ypres.
Julian Byng promoted to General.
British troops cheering King Albert I of Belgium goodbye after his visit to the frontlines: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...389666757332993

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: German airship L-59 reaches East Africa, but turns back west of Khartoum during 95-hour-non-stop flight due to British message in German cipher from Newala radio station. Returns to base after record 4,200-mile flight.
L-59 was in August 1917 the first one of a new class of Zeppelins which represented the latest design techniques and established a pattern that was to persist for almost a year: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...f-L59.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Russia: Lenin Government issues decree for demobilization of Russian army, starting with those who reached the age of conscription in 1899.
Trotsky begins publishing Allied secret treaties in Izvestia.
All class distinctions and civil ranks abolished.
France: M. Albert Lebrun succeeds M. Charles Jonnart as French Minister for Blockade (see 16th).
United Kingdom: Lord Robert Cecil on Bolsheviks.
Ship-building Council appointed. Church bells ring for ‘Cambrai victory’.
United States: German residents in the U.S. are barred from entering tall buildings in New York that gives them view of the New York Harbor or the rivers.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Heavy back-and-forth fighting continues at the Battle of Cambrai, where villages near Bourlon Wood change hands several times between the British and Germans: Moeuvres, Queant, Bullecourt, and Banteux. British fail to storm Bourlon Hill, but Colonel Wade with party hold part of village until November 26. British recover Fontaine-Notre-Dame; renewed attacks on November 25-27 are fruitless. Haig letter laments severe shortage of infantrymen.
Successful French minor attack on Verdun front.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Austrian assaults fail on Asiago Plateau; also attempts to cross Lower Piave. Emperor Charles ends attacks in Asiago sector, Conrad’s losses 15,030 (nearly 7,000 sick) since November 10.
General Sir Herbert Plumer assumes formal command of British forces in Italy.
Emperors Charles (far left) and Wilhelm II, hoping to knock Italy out of the war: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...alien.jpg?ssl=1

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Battle of Nebi Samwil: Battle of Nebi Samwil (Palestine) ends (see 17th.). Anzac Mounted Division gains but loses 2 bridgeheads north of river Auja until November 25. Turkish losses are 437 soldiers.
Lt.-Gen. Sir W. R. Marshall succeeds Sir S. Maude in Mesopotamia (see 18 November).

Political, etc
Russia: Bolsheviks bury those who died in the taking of Moscow in the Kremlin walls: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...738226229145600
The Bolsheviks release the details to the public of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which splits Ottoman lands between the French and British: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...753317813030912
France: French newsreel showing French soldiers in northern Italy to reinforce the line against Austria-Hungary: http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/45429 (sucks that these keep coming up for me as “content unavailable”, but YMMV).
Turkey: Ain ed Douleh succeeds Ala es Sultaneh as Persian Prime Minister (see June 6th, 1917 and January 19th, 1918).

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: String German counter-attacks at Bourlon; yhey regain parts of the village. British 40th Division loss now 4,000 men since November 23, only 12 tanks in action.
Verdun: French attack in Samogneux district, north of Verdun; they take 800 prisoners.

Eastern Front
In Russian centre (near Baranovichi) the troops continue to fraternise with the enemy.
At Orsha railway junction anti-Bolshevik troops going for Moscow are stopped.
After the ceasefire offer of the Russian revolutionary government, lively exchange trade begins between the trenches: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-1917.jpg?ssl=1

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Heavy mountain fighting between the Brenta and Piave; more attacks repulsed by Italians.
German airship L-59 returns to Yambol from flight to East Africa.
Fresh Austrian attacks in Albania; on night of 25th-26th they force passage of River Osum.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique: German operations in Portuguese East Africa, begin (see December 1st, 1917 and September 29th, 1918). German force under Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck effects passage of the Rovuma and defeats Portuguese force at Ngomano. Crossing is 1 mile from Portuguese fort with 2,000 troops; 3,000 porters and 1 gun in action until November 26. His attack takes the fort, 700 Portuguese, 6 MGs, 30 horses with 6 days’ rations.
At the Battle of Ngomano in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), German forces under von Lettow-Vorbeck defeat the Portuguese: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...479323561590784

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mounted troops capture Ain Karim, four miles west of Jerusalem.
British patrols, after crossing Auja river forced back by hostile infantry.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: 100,000 workers march in Budapest for peace and Russian Revolution.
Russia: Constituent Assembly elections (until November 27): Bolsheviks win only 25% of vote, ie 9.8 million of 36 million with 225 delegates to 420 Socialists (20.75 million votes). An oft-repeated claims that these are the last free elections till 1989. Much more important is this interpretation: Russian Constituent Assembly election, the first free election in Russian history, is held, with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party winning 40% of the votes. Bolsheviks win 24%.
United States: A church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is targeted with a bomb by anarchists. While the bomb was being inspected at the police department, it explodes, resulting in 11 deaths.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: 12 DH4 bombers of No 49 Squadron fly first Western Front raid on railhead east of Cambrai, but other units switched to routine strategic targets until November 29.
Heavy shelling about Ypres.
British carrier pigeons returning from the frontlines with messages: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...752359464529920

Eastern Front
Russian Armies at the front experience desertions due to the lack of food, as the revolution cause disruptions in the supply lines.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Sharp Austro-Hungarian attack repulsed in Brenta valley, two miles east of San Marino. Austrian Edelweiss Division (only 2,000 strong by November 27) fails to capture Col della Berretta against 2 Italian brigades, Alpini Val Brenta battalion and 60th Bersaglieri. Mt Pertica changes hands seven times and is left fire-swept with both sides below summit.
Austrians secretly withdraw Zenson bridgehead until December 2.
PoWs collection point for Italians at Tolmein: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...al-KG.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Germany: Navy extends U-boat barred zone to 720 miles from Irish coast and area around Azores and Cape Verde Islands (effective from January 11, 1918). In Mediterranean 20-mile wide neutral corridor to Greece closed.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: Lord Rothermere appointed President of the Air Council.
Increase of pay to both Navy and Army announced.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Severe village fighting at Fontaine, Notre Dame, and Bourlon; British line advanced at first, and 500 prisoners taken; German “attack” west of Moeuvres repulsed. Exhausted British disengage at Cambrai after Guards Division (with 32 tanks) driven back in Bourlon and Fontaine sectors. Ludendorff and Rupprecht confer at Le Cateau as 20 fresh German divisions mass under Marwitz near Cambrai: ‘There never has been such an opportunity for a smashing counterstrike’, says Ludendorff who insists all must be ready before November 30 as Cambrai is a vital rail center.
At Cambrai, a British tank by artillery and destroyed: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-tank.jpg?ssl=1
Members of Supreme War Council appointed - General Sir H. H. Wilson, General F. Foch, General Cadorna and General Bliss (see 7th).
Canadian soldier at the Western Front washing his hair with shampoo in a ditch: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...176768499134464

Eastern Front
First meeting of Russian and German delegates behind German lines to arrange for armistice (see 21st and 30th).

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Unconditional surrender near Nevala (East Africa) of Mahenge force, under Colonel Tafel, consisting of over 3,500 German and native troops (according to another source, only 215 Germans and 1,100 followers).
Baltic: Russian destroyer Bditelni mined and sunk off Aaland Islands by UC-78 minefield.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: 15,800 Turks with c.120 guns gain ground from Yeomanry and 54th Divisions until reserves stabilize line on November 30.

Political, etc
Russia: Armistice delegates return with German consent in principle. Next meeting December 1, 1917.
Trotsky warns Russia may be driven to separate armistice if Allies do not negotiate. George Buchanan to British Foreign Office ‘Every day that we keep Russia in the war against her will does but embitter her people against us.’
France: British Premier Lloyd George and Greek Premier Eleftherios Venizelos arrive in Paris for a inter-Allied War Council.
United Kingdom: War Office sanctions doubled Tank Corps establishment of 18,462 (originally requested April 13, 1917).
Brazil: Brazil concludes agreement with France for the use of 30 interned German ships, to carry food for the Allies.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Germans shell Bourlon Wood and Ypres front. 16,000 German gas and high-explosive shells rain down on Bourlon Wood.
France: AEF US First Army Staff College opens at Langres with three-month course.

Eastern Front
Russia suffers heavily from the war. As a result of famine, there were even cases of cannibalism: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ismus.jpg?ssl=1

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italian batteries shell Austro-Hungarian boats on Lower Piave.
Albania: Austro-Hungarians assault Italian positions nine miles north-east from Avlona.
A German or Austro-Hungarian soldier taking a picture of the ruined town of Asiago, Italy after its capture: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...237081336569857

Naval and Overseas Operations
British Home Waters: U-boat sinks British Elder-Dempster liner Apapa (77 lives lost).
Adriatic: Austrian destroyers and torpedo boats shell coast railway near Senigallia.
Britain: WRNS founded (Women’s Royal Naval Service).
East Africa: GERMAN EAST AFRICA ALL IN BRITISH HANDS. K George V’s telegram congratulates Jacob Deventer on November 30.

Political, etc
Russia: Estonia declares itself independent.
Bashkirs in Russia proclaim the creation of Bashkurdistan, the first autonomous ethnic region in Russia.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky radio and telegram proclamation ‘The Russian Army and the Russian people cannot and will not, wait any longer.’
France: First meeting of Great Inter-Allied Conference opens in Paris.
British Premier Lloyd George meeting with French Premier Georges Clemenceau for tomorrow's Allied war council. © IWM (Q 57040): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...486021789192192
United Kingdom: Air Force (Constitution) Act, 1917, comes into operation in Great Britain (see December 21st, 1917 and January 3rd, 1918).

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: British troops at Cambrai launch an attack with 30 tanks against Bourlon and Fontaine, but lose gained ground to German counterattacks.
Germans attack Belgian positions near Aschhoop.
Artillery activity in Ypres sector.
A wounded Canadian and German soldier light up their cigarettes near Passchendaele: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...589135011729413

Eastern Front
Russian artillery in Trotus (Moldavia) valley breaks up Austro-Hungarian operations.
Otherwise, cessation of hostilities on Russian front.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Austro-German efforts on the River Piave fail.
British monitor destroys bridge of boats at Passarella, five miles up the Piave.
The first operational sorties are flown by the Royal Flying Corps in Italy. Royal Aircraft Factory RE8s from No.34 Squadron attempt a photographic reconnaissance of the Montello front, escorted by the Sopwith Camels of No.28 Squadron. The flight shoots down 1 Austrian single-seater but fighter attacks prevent RE8 photo-reconnaissance.
A German Albatros fighter on a reconnaissance mission on the Italian front: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...alpen.jpg?ssl=1 [note: although labelled an Albatros by the caption, this aircraft is clearly a Pfalz D-III (or D-IIIa); Austria-Hungary didn’t use the Pfalz, so perhaps the aircraft is on a training or home-defense flight over the Bavarian Alps: the main user of the Pfalz was Bavaria]
French 75mm field gun converted as an anti-aircraft gun at the Macedonian Front: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...891144642351104

Political, etc
Germany: Germany accepts Lenin's offer of an armistice. Russian delegates cross German lines. Count Hertling willing to treat with Bolsheviks. Kaiser wires Kuehlmann to try for Russian alliance ‘in spite of everything’.
Russia: Allied nations warn Russia not to conclude a separate peace with Germany, while Russian and German delegates begin talks for an armistice.
United Kingdom: Letter in "Daily Telegraph" from Lord Lansdowne calling for a re-statement of Allies' War Aims, and urges compromise peace with Germany.
War Cabinet bars Bolshevik propaganda and suspends all warlike aid.
British newsreel “Topical Budget” showing tank scenes from the Battle of Cambrai and other news: http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/5440

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