Western Front
France: George Patton writes from Langres ‘… I get requests … to transfer into tanks nearly daily’.
A cave entrance used as a barrack for French troops near Couverelle:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...022176821346304
Eastern Front
Russia: Vladimir Lenin asks Sverdlov to form Revolutionary Defence Committee against Germans who take Rechitsa west of Gomel.
German forces capture the city of Minsk from Soviet Russia. Total number of Russians captured in the offensive reach 9000, along with 1353 artillery guns.
Don: Lavr Kornilov’s 3000-strong Volunteer Army evacuates Rostov in night February 21-22, as several Red columns converge on it.
Finish Civil War: Finnish Whites defeat the Red forces at Varkaus, thus securing northern Finland for the White forces. Around 180 captured Red forces are executed.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: King George V visits Harwich Force (new flagship cruiser
Curacoa).
Adriatic: Austrian
U-23 sunk by Italian torpedo boat
Airone off Valona.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Jericho taken by British forces (19th/21st).
Captured Ottoman trenches, with the Dead Sea in the background:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...282647260581888
British established on line of the Jordan to east and Auja to north, threatening Hejaz railway.
Political, etc
Germany: Main Committee of German Reichstag adopts peace treaty with the Ukraine.
New peace terms for Russia formulated by Germany.
Government accepts Finn request for intervention.
United Kingdom: A view of a British Humber aeroplane factory:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...007079382155264
United States: US Tank Corps recruiting poster:
https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...tanks.jpg?ssl=1