The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... line and therefore had the Hindenburg Line as their first objective , after the other corps had come up into line by taking their initial objectives . As a result , the attack of the 21st Division of VII Corps , on the right , did not ...
... line and therefore had the Hindenburg Line as their first objective , after the other corps had come up into line by taking their initial objectives . As a result , the attack of the 21st Division of VII Corps , on the right , did not ...
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... Hindenburg Line . Unlikely as these accounts ( which can be found in the Tank Corps records , which include the war diary of that corps ' D Battalion , those of Fifth Army of the Commander - in - Chief ) seem now - and should have ...
... Hindenburg Line . Unlikely as these accounts ( which can be found in the Tank Corps records , which include the war diary of that corps ' D Battalion , those of Fifth Army of the Commander - in - Chief ) seem now - and should have ...
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... Hindenburg Line between St Quentin and Cambrai . The assault was supported by 175 tanks and by the end of the day the Fourth Army had captured the first and second lines of the Hindenburg position on a front of 5 miles . Rawlinson ...
... Hindenburg Line between St Quentin and Cambrai . The assault was supported by 175 tanks and by the end of the day the Fourth Army had captured the first and second lines of the Hindenburg position on a front of 5 miles . Rawlinson ...
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