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... British line . The German IV Corps attacked Le Cateau and soon forced the defending soldiers , from the East Surreys and the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry , out of the town and on to higher ground to the south . There , aided by ...
... British line . The German IV Corps attacked Le Cateau and soon forced the defending soldiers , from the East Surreys and the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry , out of the town and on to higher ground to the south . There , aided by ...
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... British line on the 1st and 2nd Division fronts were also pounded , but though infantry attacks were threatened , none were actually delivered . The fighting on 11 November was of a different order , one of the hardest days of battle in ...
... British line on the 1st and 2nd Division fronts were also pounded , but though infantry attacks were threatened , none were actually delivered . The fighting on 11 November was of a different order , one of the hardest days of battle in ...
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... British Army . Once that had been done , Ludendorff would turn the full weight of his armies on the French ; self - interest therefore demanded that every effort be made to shore up the British line . This decision came none too soon ...
... British Army . Once that had been done , Ludendorff would turn the full weight of his armies on the French ; self - interest therefore demanded that every effort be made to shore up the British line . This decision came none too soon ...
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