The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Aubers Ridge . Today , cloaked with trees and dotted with houses , Aubers Ridge is easy to overlook but in 1915 any piece of higher ground was vital , as had been proved in the Salient . Aubers Ridge provided the German artillery with ...
... Aubers Ridge . Today , cloaked with trees and dotted with houses , Aubers Ridge is easy to overlook but in 1915 any piece of higher ground was vital , as had been proved in the Salient . Aubers Ridge provided the German artillery with ...
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... Aubers Ridge . A similar delay had occurred on the Indian Corps front , where General Willcocks was still encountering resistance from the German salient at Port Arthur , and was waiting for news of IV Corps before advancing . The two ...
... Aubers Ridge . A similar delay had occurred on the Indian Corps front , where General Willcocks was still encountering resistance from the German salient at Port Arthur , and was waiting for news of IV Corps before advancing . The two ...
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... Aubers Ridge . Though Field Marshal French was usually mesmerised by Foch , on this occasion he demurred , insisting that the British attack should go in at the same time as the French assault and demanding a precise date for the ...
... Aubers Ridge . Though Field Marshal French was usually mesmerised by Foch , on this occasion he demurred , insisting that the British attack should go in at the same time as the French assault and demanding a precise date for 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