The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Allenby if he would act under his command , should he be forced to make a stand at Le Cateau . Allenby replied in the affirmative , ' says Smith - Dorrien , ' and I remarked " Very well , gentlemen , we will stand and fight and I will ...
... Allenby if he would act under his command , should he be forced to make a stand at Le Cateau . Allenby replied in the affirmative , ' says Smith - Dorrien , ' and I remarked " Very well , gentlemen , we will stand and fight and I will ...
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... Allenby's Third Army . Third Army was charged with carrying out much of the assault along and astride the River Scarpe in the forthcoming Battle of Arras , and the Highlanders had been ordered to keep their advance tied in with the ...
... Allenby's Third Army . Third Army was charged with carrying out much of the assault along and astride the River Scarpe in the forthcoming Battle of Arras , and the Highlanders had been ordered to keep their advance tied in with the ...
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... Allenby and Horne at St Pol . He urged Allenby to press on where he could , especially with cavalry south of the Scarpe , not least because Gough's Fifth Army was putting in I Anzac at Bullecourt on the following day . By the 11th , the ...
... Allenby and Horne at St Pol . He urged Allenby to press on where he could , especially with cavalry south of the Scarpe , not least because Gough's Fifth Army was putting in I Anzac at Bullecourt on the following day . By the 11th , the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE BACKGROUND TO THE WAR 18711914 | 8 |
THE TURN OF THE TIDE AND THE HUNDRED DAYS JuneNovember 1918 483 | 22 |
Copyright | |
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advance Allenby Allied ammunition Arras artillery assault attack Aubers Ridge August Australian barrage Bassée battalions battle battlefield began Belgian bombardment Bourlon Brigade British Army British line Byng Cambrai Canadian Corps Canal casualties Cateau cavalry Cavalry Corps Cavalry Division counter-attack creeping barrage east enemy Field Marshal French Fifth Army fighting Flesquières Foch force forward Fourth Army France French Army front line front-line German Army German defences German line Gough ground Haig Haig's heavy guns Hindenburg Line II Corps infantry Joffre Kitchener La Bassée La Boisselle Lanrezac Le Cateau Lieutenant-General Lloyd George Loos losses Major-General Messines miles military move Neuve Chapelle Nivelle offensive officers ordered Passchendaele Plumer push Rawlinson Regiment reserves rifle Salient Schlieffen Plan Second Army sent shells Smith-Dorrien soldiers Somme staff strongpoints tactics tanks Third Army took troops village Vimy Ridge Western Front wire Wood wounded yards Ypres