The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Army on his right and - when it arrived - Pulteney's III Corps on his left , a diversity of tasks that was to create ... Fourth , consisting of four reserve corps . This Army took up position east of Ypres , circling the town south to ...
... Army on his right and - when it arrived - Pulteney's III Corps on his left , a diversity of tasks that was to create ... Fourth , consisting of four reserve corps . This Army took up position east of Ypres , circling the town south to ...
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... Fourth Army , after which the cavalry of Gough's Reserve Army , which was forming close behind Fourth Army , would come thundering through the gap , and mobile warfare would return again to the Western Front . That entire front was a ...
... Fourth Army , after which the cavalry of Gough's Reserve Army , which was forming close behind Fourth Army , would come thundering through the gap , and mobile warfare would return again to the Western Front . That entire front was a ...
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... Army should press on towards Bapaume and First Army should attack and capture Monchy , these operations to begin on 15 September . Foch accepted this , but ordered that Fourth Army should carry on attacking on the Somme , since the ...
... Army should press on towards Bapaume and First Army should attack and capture Monchy , these operations to begin on 15 September . Foch accepted this , but ordered that Fourth Army should carry on attacking on the Somme , since 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