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, May 2, 2013

Moors Ambush French.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 2, 1913:
But Are Defeated with Heavy Loss — French Lose 18 Killed.
    RABAT, May 1.— A French column, part of Col. Mangin's forces, fought a fierce engagement on April 28 at Sidiali with a strong body of tribesmen affiliated with the rebel El Hiba.
    The French troops were ambushed, but succeeded in repulsing the tribesmen after seven hours.
    The French lost eighteen killed and forty-one wounded. The rebel casualty list was very large.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Moors Ambush French.

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