The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Bourlon Ridge position could be taken , the Hindenburg Line would be compromised along a wide sector of the German front . Haig therefore had a tough decision to make . Should he cut his losses , revert to the ' raid ' notion originally ...
... Bourlon Ridge position could be taken , the Hindenburg Line would be compromised along a wide sector of the German front . Haig therefore had a tough decision to make . Should he cut his losses , revert to the ' raid ' notion originally ...
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... Bourlon , a push on a front from Inchy to Fontaine , with the main attack by the fresh 40th Division con- centrated on the central Bourlon position . He allowed a full day for preparation , intending to attack in force at 1030 hours on ...
... Bourlon , a push on a front from Inchy to Fontaine , with the main attack by the fresh 40th Division con- centrated on the central Bourlon position . He allowed a full day for preparation , intending to attack in force at 1030 hours on ...
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... Bourlon . Twenty - two tanks and the 6th Gordon Highlanders of the 51st Division made an immediate thrust for Fontaine . Three tanks got into La Folie Wood , but the ' male ' tank was swiftly knocked out and without the fire of its six ...
... Bourlon . Twenty - two tanks and the 6th Gordon Highlanders of the 51st Division made an immediate thrust for Fontaine . Three tanks got into La Folie Wood , but the ' male ' tank was swiftly knocked out and without the fire of its six ...
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