Western Front
British consolidate new positions at Passchendaele; no German counter-attacks.
Verdun: Germans attack French at Chaume Wood.
Southern Front
Isonzo: Twelfth Battle Of Isonzo, aka, the
Battle of Caporetto: Italian troops are again forced into retreat as they abandon defenses on the Tagliamento River. Italians in retreat west from Tagliamento to reach River Livenza. Germans claim many thousand prisoners.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Baltic: Bolshevik cruiser
Aurora (retained November 5) lands some of her 522 sailors to seize Nikolai Bridge in Petrograd. Revolution at Petrograd climaxes with searchlight assisted (but inaccurate) shelling of Winter Palace. Minelayer
Amur, 2 minesweepers, 2 steamers, and 5 small craft arrive from Kronstadt with 3,800 sailors (c.9,700 in capital) and 950 soldiers. 4 destroyers sail from Helsinki to back Lenin (2 arrive on November 7) despite C-in-C’s protest.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
A claim that the
Third Battle of Gaza ends, duplicating a separate claim for an earlier date. Capture of Gaza by General Allenby; the troops push on and reach the Wadi Hesi, eight miles north of Gaza.* British and French warships co-operate off coast.
Political, etc
Russia: The first of “Ten Days that Shook the World”: Maximalist (Bolshevik) revolution begins in Petrograd, known as the Great October Socialist Revolution, due to the Gregorian calendar date of 25 October 1917, then in use in Russia. Russian government troops raid the offices of Bolshevik newspaper Pravda, run by Joseph Stalin, and destroy its printing presses. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee begin the occupation of government buildings on 7 November 1917 (New Style). Kerensky leaves by car to find loyal troops, other ministers in Winter Palace with 1,000 troops surrounded by 18,000 Reds. Red cruiser
Aurora signals bombardment from 2210 hours.
The signal for the October Revolution – a shot is fired from the cruiser
Aurora:
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Italy: Allied Conference at Rapallo. Inception of Supreme War Council (see 27th).
General Luigi Cadorna relieved of the command of the Italian Armies (see May 23rd, 1915 and November 27th, 1917). Succeeded by General Armando Diaz.
United States: Notes of agreement between U.S. and Japan, concerning their interests in China, published.