The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Corps , on the left flank of III Corps , had linked up with the 7th Division of Raw- linson's IV Corps , in position on the Ypres - Menin Road . On the southern flank of III Corps , Conneau's French cavalry division occupied the space ...
... Corps , on the left flank of III Corps , had linked up with the 7th Division of Raw- linson's IV Corps , in position on the Ypres - Menin Road . On the southern flank of III Corps , Conneau's French cavalry division occupied the space ...
Page 127
... corps and a Bavarian reserve division would put in an assault against Gheluvelt as a prelude to the main attack . Field Marshal French had no more units available . Rawlinson's IV Corps had now been broken up and Rawlinson had returned ...
... corps and a Bavarian reserve division would put in an assault against Gheluvelt as a prelude to the main attack . Field Marshal French had no more units available . Rawlinson's IV Corps had now been broken up and Rawlinson had returned ...
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... IV Corps , on the northern side of Neuve Chapelle , got off to a more encouraging start but also petered out before the German defences . Part of the reason for the initial success was that Rawlinson had used mines , tunnelled under the ...
... IV Corps , on the northern side of Neuve Chapelle , got off to a more encouraging start but also petered out before the German defences . Part of the reason for the initial success was that Rawlinson had used mines , tunnelled under 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