The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Fifth Army . This was a legitimate concern , for by the evening of 22 August the BEF was some ten miles ahead of the Fifth Army , with a growing gap between the flanks of the two armies . The more Lanrezac withdrew or the BEF advanced ...
... Fifth Army . This was a legitimate concern , for by the evening of 22 August the BEF was some ten miles ahead of the Fifth Army , with a growing gap between the flanks of the two armies . The more Lanrezac withdrew or the BEF advanced ...
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... Army would be in a terrible plight and the Allied line cut in two . In the south , on Gough's Fifth Army front , a breakthrough , while unpleasant , would not be nearly so disastrous , for Fifth Army had room to retreat . Haig was ...
... Army would be in a terrible plight and the Allied line cut in two . In the south , on Gough's Fifth Army front , a breakthrough , while unpleasant , would not be nearly so disastrous , for Fifth Army had room to retreat . Haig was ...
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Robin Neillands. Armies . ' He therefore ordered all three German armies to press on towards Amiens , with the aim of ... Fifth Army caused consternation among the Allied commanders and political leaders . On 23 March , two days into the ...
Robin Neillands. Armies . ' He therefore ordered all three German armies to press on towards Amiens , with the aim of ... Fifth Army caused consternation among the Allied commanders and political leaders . On 23 March , two days into the ...
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