Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

Although the state inherited much of Austro-Hungary's military arsenal, including the entire fleet, the Kingdom of Italy moved rapidly to annex the state's most western territories, promised to her by the Treaty of London of 1915.

* 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.

The United States would, at least until 1915, take sides with the ruling Americo-Liberians in these struggles ( see Relations between the U. S. and Liberia ); European powers would, in the 19th century, stir up internal unrest in Liberia ( see military threats ).

** Joachim Peiper, German military leader ( b. 1915 )

In August 1915 the company came under the direction of Neapolitan entrepreneur Nicola Romeo, who converted the factory to produce military hardware for the Italian and Allied war efforts.

In August 1915 the company came under the direction of Neapolitan entrepreneur Nicola Romeo, who converted the factory to produce military hardware for the Italian and Allied war efforts.

Probably the best known examples of sesquiplanes are the Nieuport single and two-seat military aircraft of World War I, from the Nieuport 10 of 1915 through to the Nieuport 27 of 1917.

German military parade in Lille, 1915

On 25 December 1915, Yunnan's military governor, Cai E, rebelled, launching the National Protection War.

With his forces vastly outnumbered and outgunned, Serb Vojvoda Marshal Radomir Putnik ordered a full retreat of the Serbian military south and west through Montenegro and into Albania on 25 November 1915.

The Soča valley was the stage of major military operations including the twelve battles of the Isonzo on the Italian front in World War I between May 1915 and November 1917, in which over 600, 000 Austro-Hungarian and Italian soldiers lost their lives.

In 1915, World War I needs led to the construction of the railroad from Petrozavodsk to an ice-free location on the Murman Coast in the Russian Arctic, to which Russia's allies shipped military supplies.

* Duchy of Courland and Semigallia ( 1918 ) – in 1915 the Imperial German forces occupied the Russian Courland Governorate and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended the war in the east, so the local ethnic Baltic Germans established a Duchy under the German crown from that part of Ober Ost, with a common return of civil administration in favor of military.

During World War I, the city was one of the focal points of Austro-Hungarian / German Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive of 1915, a military operation that changed the situation in the Eastern Front and resulted in major retreat of opposing Russian forces.

Moshe Dayan (; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981 ) was an Israeli military leader and politician.

The soldiers also received visits from Lord Kithchener in July 1915, and King George V in August of the same year who presented several soldiers with military honours.

The first division sized formation raised by the Canadian military was the First Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force ; raised in 1914, it was renamed the Canadian Division in early 1915 when it took to the field, and became the 1st Canadian Division when a 2nd Canadian Division took to the field later that year.

Vickers Aviation Ltd set up a factory in 1915, and Brooklands soon became a major centre for the construction, testing and supply of military aeroplanes.

These include military presence in Cuba, Panama with the Panama Canal Zone, Haiti ( 1915 – 1935 ), Dominican Republic ( 1916 – 1924 ) and Nicaragua ( 1912 – 1925 ) & ( 1926 – 1933 ).

General Marshall, a 1915 graduate, expanded the Corps of Cadets from 300 to 950 during the six years of his administration, both academic and military offerings were expanded and the faculty was enlarged to meet the demands of the growing Cadet Corps, growth made possible by the planning and completion during his administration of the new cadet barracks.

In 1915 the total available number of men of military age was 5. 5 million, with around 500, 000 more reaching the age each year.

In early 1915 he was drafted, although university professors were exempt from military duty.

He graduated from West Point in 1915 as part of a class that contained many future generals, and which military historians have called " the class the stars fell on ".

Garros ' modified monoplane was first flown in March 1915 and he began combat operations soon thereafter.

The opening in 1915 of the University of British Columbia, established by Act of Legislature in 1908, obliged the College to suspend operations in higher education in Victoria.

The new system began operations in 1915 and played a major role in financing the Allied and American war effort.

In 1915, during World War I, a large Allied expeditionary force established a base at Thessaloniki for operations against pro-German Bulgaria.

Large British offensive operations in Flanders were not possible later in 1915, due to shortages of everything.

Preparations for operations in Flanders began in 1915, with the doubling of the Hazebrouck – Ypres rail line and the building of a new line Bergues – Proven which was doubled in early 1917.

The French artist Marcel Duchamp composed two pieces between 1913 and 1915 based on chance operations.

Zoning laws are, of course, the classic example, see Hadacheck v. Sebastian, 239 U. S. 394 ( 1915 ) ( prohibition of brickyard operations within certain neighborhoods ); Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U. S. 365 ( 1926 ) ( prohibition of industrial use ); Gorieb v. Fox, 274 U. S. 603, 608 ( 1927 ) ( requirement that portions of parcels be left unbuilt ); Welch v. Swasey, 214 U. S. 91 ( 1909 ) ( height restriction ), which have been viewed as permissible governmental action even when prohibiting the most beneficial use of the property.

In 1915, even before the group commenced operations, the Turks imprisoned Feinberg on suspicion of spying, which was not true at the time.

In 1915, the company ventured into steel manufacturing, with its operations based primarily in Newcastle, New South Wales.

But the course of World War I changed ideas about the place of the navy, as the refusal of the German fleet to engage in a decisive battle, the Dardanelles expedition of 1915, the development of submarine warfare, and the organization of convoys all showed the navy's new role in combined operations with the army.

She began expanding her international operations in 1915, and started opening salons across the world.

Interference by the National and American Leagues in their operations caused the Federal League to fold after the 1915 season.

In 1915 the Japanese set before the government in Beijing the so-called Twenty-One Demands, aimed at securing Japanese economic controls in railway and mining operations in Shandong, Manchuria and Fujian.

He stated his trade was a ' trapper ', and that he previously served as a ' Mexican Scout ' with the 28th Dragoons, although this is unclear since the U. S. was not in any significant military actions in the region ( other than small operations, to which he could not have served, he would have had to serve between 1904 and 1915 ).

That division ceased operations in 1915, during the First World War, but Arthurlie did not immediately rejoin the league after the war ended.

Other major industries included: Canadian Industries Limited ( 1915 ), Anaconda American Brass Company of Canada ( 1922, after taking over the operations of Browns Copper & Brass Rolling Mills Ltd., 1915 ), W & A Gilbey Ltd. distillery ( 1933 ), and the Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd. ( 1936 ).

The book covers Western Front operations during 1915, including the offensives at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and Loos, and ending with the dismissal of Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF, and his replacement by Douglas Haig.

When the rest of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps departed for Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, the mounted brigades remained in Egypt-the Gallipoli Peninsula being unsuited to mounted operations.

In 1915, Universal moved its Hollywood / Nestor studio and Universal / Nestor Ranch operations to its new Lankershim Blvd.

Richthofen ’ s brigade served near Pinsk in 1916, and the division would spend late 1915 to January 1917 of defensive operations in the Pripet Marshes.

It saw combat in the Action of Saint-Éloi and throughout the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, before the division was withdrawn and moved to Salonika in November, where it spent the rest of the war It was sent to Georgia in December 1918 for operations against the Bolsheviks, and returned to Edinburgh in May 1919.