A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

German destroyers shell Margate and Broadstairs.

Feb. 26 (Mon.)

The Ancre Front:—The Germans retire before the British on an eleven-mile front: Le Barque is captured.

Feb. 27 (Tues.)

The British occupy Gommecourt (on the left of the advance).

Mesopotamia:—The Turkish retreat becomes a rout; the British pursue with cavalry, infantry, and gunboats; the British gunboat Firefly, lost on the fall of Kut, is recaptured.

Feb. 28 (Wed.) (Relief of Ladysmith, 1900).

The British capture Thilloy and advance east of Gommecourt.

The Germans gain ground in the Southern Bukovina near the Dorna Watra Pass.