Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: All gains on British front consolidated, except at Fontaine Notre Dame, which Germans retake.
19 Royal Flying Corps pilots (8 aircraft lost or wrecked) attack German columns and positions; 3 German fighters shot down.
Unsuccessful German counter-attack south of Juvincourt.
French refugees from Cantaing leaving the front, while British cavalry go the other way towards it: © IWM (Q 6308):
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Eastern Front
Lenin authorizes troops at front to negotiate peace with the enemy.
Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Crisis day in key Mt Grappa sector as Austro-Germans storm onto Mt.Tomba (3,176 ft), but Laderchi’s IX Corps’ final effort drives them off (one Italian regiment reduced to 400 soldiers) and reserves consolidate on November 23. Fighting in mountains continues.
Lower Piave Austro-Germans make no progress. Austrian mountain troops storm Mt Pertica from Monte Baldo Alpini battalion, but Alpenkorps and Austrian 50th Division fail to hold gains to east until November 23.
German troops move through a village in northern Italy to the front:
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A damaged church in Ponte di Piave, Italy after its capture by the Austro-Hungarians and Germans:
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Albania: Austrian attacks in Albania on Italian line between rivers Osum and Voyusa.
Salonika: 150 Bulgars raid British line at the Mamelon (night November 23-24), Lake Doiran sector, causing 27 casualties.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Battle of Nebi Samwil (until November 24): Turks fail three times to regain Nebi Samwil Hill (2,942 ft) from 75th Division but it and 52nd Division fail at El Jib Height on November 24.
Aden: British troops capture Turkish post of Jabir, 15 miles from Aden.
Political, etc
Germany: Germany announces extension of the "barred zone" for shipping; Dutch indignation.
Teoberto Maler, German archaeologist known for his work on the Mayans, passed away. His photograph of Chichen Itza in 1892:
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Russia: Nikolai Krylenko replaces Nikolai Dukhonin as Russian Commander-in-Chief.
United Kingdom: U.S. Mission under Colonel House leaves London for Paris.
Andrew Huxley, (future Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and biophysicist) half-brother to (future author) Aldous Huxley, is born in Hampstead, London.