The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... August he concluded that : " The enemy may engage only a fraction of his right wing north of the Meuse . While his ... August , the German First Army entered Brussels . On 20 August , RFC patrols reported long columns of German infantry ...
... August he concluded that : " The enemy may engage only a fraction of his right wing north of the Meuse . While his ... August , the German First Army entered Brussels . On 20 August , RFC patrols reported long columns of German infantry ...
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... August , and French cavalry pickets , observing the crossing , reported that the German divisions were heading north , into Belgium , not south into France . Brussels fell to the German First Army on 20 August and on the 21st the Second ...
... August , and French cavalry pickets , observing the crossing , reported that the German divisions were heading north , into Belgium , not south into France . Brussels fell to the German First Army on 20 August and on the 21st the Second ...
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... August , with the regularity of the Indian monsoon ' . There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that refutes this contention , most obviously that the advance to and retreat from Mons in nearby Hainault in August 1914 was conducted in ...
... August , with the regularity of the Indian monsoon ' . There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that refutes this contention , most obviously that the advance to and retreat from Mons in nearby Hainault in August 1914 was conducted in ...
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