The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Cateau , eight miles south - west of Landrecies , should go to the Guards Brigade's assistance . French went further than this ; at 0500 he sent Colonel Huguet , who was now the French liaison officer at GHQ , to Lanrezac's HQ , telling ...
... Cateau , eight miles south - west of Landrecies , should go to the Guards Brigade's assistance . French went further than this ; at 0500 he sent Colonel Huguet , who was now the French liaison officer at GHQ , to Lanrezac's HQ , telling ...
Page 89
... Cateau is hilly , and there are commanding heights north of the Cambrai road and along the Selle valley , which runs south from the town . The 5th Division occupied Le Cateau itself and held the ground to the south , above the valley of ...
... Cateau is hilly , and there are commanding heights north of the Cambrai road and along the Selle valley , which runs south from the town . The 5th Division occupied Le Cateau itself and held the ground to the south , above the valley of ...
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... Cateau , or during the intervening retreat . Telling the corps commanders to make their own arrangements for the withdrawal from Mons is , at best , a strange course of action for any army commander to take , not least because it ...
... Cateau , or during the intervening retreat . Telling the corps commanders to make their own arrangements for the withdrawal from Mons is , at best , a strange course of action for any army commander to take , not least because it ...
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