Western Front
Hostile raids repulsed by British.
French success at Chaume Wood.
Cambrai: British Tank Corps, moved up by train, begins to move to start line (night November 19-20).
British tanks loaded on trains on their way to Cambrai:
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Lorraine: Captain George Patton joins US Tank Corps.
Eastern Front
Western Russia: Bolshevik armored train retakes Minsk.
Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italians make determined stand in the mountains and defeat Austrians' attacks. Lower Piave Austro-Germans make no progress. Some sources mark this as the end of the
Battle of Caporetto.
Italy suffered 10,000 killed in action, 30,000 wounded, and 265,000 captured during the recently-concluded Battle of Caporetto.
Naval and Overseas Operations
The wreck of HMS
Candytuft:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...969032537899015
A British merchantman accidentally rams the U.S. destroyer USS
Chauncey and sinks it, resulting in 21 deaths. The USS
Chauncey:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...203073786740736
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Battle of Nebi Samwil (until November 24): British advance further in the hills of Judea; arrive within six miles of Jerusalem.
Political, etc
Russia: Georgian National Council meets.
Bolsheviks issue offer to the nations for immediate armistice on all fronts for the purpose of discussing a democratic peace.
HM Ambassador Buchanan’s diary ‘
At the moment force alone counts’.
United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George on Allied War Council in House of Commons.
Italy: Government successfully asks Britain and France for 300,000 rifles; 4,000 MGs, 640 guns and 40 tanks.
United States: U.S. War Department recommends that all government contractors should limit work hours to 8 hours a day.
India: Indira Nehru (Indira Gandhi, future Prime Minister of India) is born in Allahabad to Jawaharlal Nehru (1st Prime Minister of India) and Kamala Nehru.