A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

The Austrians evacuate Serbia (see Aug. 13).

Invasion of the Cameroons by the French and British (see Feb. 19, 1916).

Aug. 26 (Wed.) (Crécy, 1346).

The First Battle of Le Cateau: further retirement of the Allies in France. Maubeuge is invested by the Germans (see Sept. 7).

The beginning of the Battle of Tannenberg, which, after four days' fighting, leads to the crushing defeat of the Russians by Hindenburg.

Togoland surrenders to the Allies (see Aug. 8).

H.M.S. Highflyer (a light cruiser, used before the war as a training ship for naval cadets) sinks the German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off the West African coast.

Aug. 27 (Thur.)

The Allies fall back behind the Somme. Lille and Mézières are occupied by the Germans. Ostend is occupied by British marines.