The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Arras and Vimy , though numerically inferior , were good , steady troops , and four of the five divisions manning the defences opposite Third Army were fresh . Three divisions under General Ritter von Fassbender formed the ' Vimy Group ...
... Arras and Vimy , though numerically inferior , were good , steady troops , and four of the five divisions manning the defences opposite Third Army were fresh . Three divisions under General Ritter von Fassbender formed the ' Vimy Group ...
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... Arras proved their worth on this section of the front , for the troops of the 12th ( Eastern ) Division , advancing along the left of the Arras - Cambrai road with their right flank on the road itself , went into battle fresh and ...
... Arras proved their worth on this section of the front , for the troops of the 12th ( Eastern ) Division , advancing along the left of the Arras - Cambrai road with their right flank on the road itself , went into battle fresh and ...
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... Arras had little to complain about on the evening of 9 April 1917 . It is also a fact that the German Army at Arras was not the force it had been on the Somme . There had been frequent surrenders - more than 5,000 prisoners had been ...
... Arras had little to complain about on the evening of 9 April 1917 . It is also a fact that the German Army at Arras was not the force it had been on the Somme . There had been frequent surrenders - more than 5,000 prisoners had been ...
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