The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Bassée Canal and the Flanders cloth town of Ypres , a city of some 20,000 inhabitants situated a few miles south of ... Bassee , north to the edge of the soon - to- be - notorious ' Ypres Salient ' , and then round the low hills that ...
... Bassée Canal and the Flanders cloth town of Ypres , a city of some 20,000 inhabitants situated a few miles south of ... Bassee , north to the edge of the soon - to- be - notorious ' Ypres Salient ' , and then round the low hills that ...
Page 115
... Bassée Canal , and from there the fighting spread steadily north towards Ypres , being taken up by the Cavalry Corps and III Corps in their turn . Sir John French had hoped that II Corps could swing behind the German line , take La Bassée ...
... Bassée Canal , and from there the fighting spread steadily north towards Ypres , being taken up by the Cavalry Corps and III Corps in their turn . Sir John French had hoped that II Corps could swing behind the German line , take La Bassée ...
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... Bassée Canal . He followed this with a letter to French in which he said that if the British looked carefully and avoided the built - up area of Lens and Liévin , their attack would ' find particularly favourable ground between Loos and ...
... Bassée Canal . He followed this with a letter to French in which he said that if the British looked carefully and avoided the built - up area of Lens and Liévin , their attack would ' find particularly favourable ground between Loos and ...
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