A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Nicaraguans Fire On Our Marines.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 20, 1912:
Try to Prevent Advance of Train Carrying American Force to Open Railway.
BATTLE MAY BE NECESSARY
Americans Have Occupied Masaya and Will Push On to Relieve the Starving Girls at Granada.
SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Sept. 19.— A force of American marines under the command of Major Smedley D. Butler, which left Managua last Sunday to open the railroad to Granada, occupied the town of Masaya yesterday.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Nicaraguans Fire On Our Marines.

No comments:

Post a Comment