A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

Nov. 18 (Mon.)

Belgian troops enter Brussels.

Nov. 19 (Tues.)

General Pétain, created a Marshal of France on this day, formally enters Metz at the head of French troops.

Belgian troops enter Antwerp.

Nov. 21 (Thur.)

British troops enter Namur.

The first and main instalment of the German High Sea Fleet (5 battle-cruisers, 9 battleships, 7 light cruisers, and 49 destroyers) surrenders to Admiral Sir David Beatty off the Firth of Forth.

Nov. 22 (Fri.)