Attack of the Dead Men
Gassed Russian soldiers counterattack and rout the Germans
At dawn on 6 August 1915 the Germans released a cloud of chlorine and bromine on the positions at Osowiec: of some 800 defenders only about 100 were left standing, nearly all poisoned. The remnants of Lieutenant Kotlinsky's 13th Company, faces wrapped in cloth, charged with bayonets and routed some 7,000 advancing Germans.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 1 year earlier
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 3 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 5 years later
- 1939–1945 World War II — 24 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1916 Brusilov offensive — 1 year later
- 1917 October Revolution — 2 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 2 years later
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 14 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 21 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 7 years earlier
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — same year
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 1 year later
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — 1 year later
- 1917 Balfour Declaration — 2 years later
Africa
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 18 years earlier
- 1898 Battle of Omdurman — 17 years earlier
- 1899–1902 Second Boer War — 16 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 11 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 7 years later
Asia
- 1910 Japan annexes Korea — 5 years earlier
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 4 years earlier
- 1916–1917 1916 revolt and the Urkun — 1 year later
- 1918–1934 Basmachi movement — 3 years later
- 1919 Amritsar massacre — 4 years later
Americas
- 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — 5 years earlier
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — 2 years earlier
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 1 year earlier
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — 1 year earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash — 14 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 22 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 22 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 4 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 3 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 68)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 59)
- Marie Curie (aged 48)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 46)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 45)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 44)
- Winston Churchill (aged 41)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 37)
- Albert Einstein (aged 36)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 34)