The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... British actions , and British relations with the French , in the months and ... army in a worldwide struggle was also non - existent ; in the event it took ... British generals or the Army High Command . The British Government of the day ...
... British actions , and British relations with the French , in the months and ... army in a worldwide struggle was also non - existent ; in the event it took ... British generals or the Army High Command . The British Government of the day ...
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... British Expeditionary Force of 1914 in perspective , we have go back a few decades to the Cardwell reforms of the 1870s , when the British Army made a final break with the army that had been formed during the Napoleonic Wars and which ...
... British Expeditionary Force of 1914 in perspective , we have go back a few decades to the Cardwell reforms of the 1870s , when the British Army made a final break with the army that had been formed during the Napoleonic Wars and which ...
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... troops . By 1914 , each infantry battalion also con- tained two Maxim machine - guns but was currently re - equipping with the excellent Vickers medium machine - gun ( MMG ) which the British Army would retain for the next fifty years ...
... troops . By 1914 , each infantry battalion also con- tained two Maxim machine - guns but was currently re - equipping with the excellent Vickers medium machine - gun ( MMG ) which the British Army would retain for the next fifty years ...
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