August 1914

The following events occurred in August 1914:

Headline from newspaper Le Soir , 4 August 1914, declaring Germany had violated Belgium's neutrality.
An imagined depiction of the massacre during the Battle of Dinant by the American artist George W. Bellows (1918)
A Berlin crowd listens as a German officer reads Wilhelm II's order for mobilisation, 1 August 1914.
Belgian troops defending a Herstal suburb, just north-east of Liège .
British ships seen in pursuit of German ships SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau .
Signature of the Teoloyucan Treaties in Mexico City .
British soldiers resting in the town square at Mons before entering the fighting line at the Battle of Mons .
British troops retreating during the Battle of Mons .
Dead Russian soldiers in a trench during the Battle of Tannenberg .
British sailors watch the German cruiser SMS Mainz sink during the Battle of Heligoland Bight .
Russian prisoners of war after the Battle of Tannenberg .