The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Joffre was born at Rivesaltes , a village at the foot of the French Pyrenees , in 1852. He came of humble stock and from a large family , for his father , a cooper , had eleven children to support . In 1870 , when Joffre was still a ...
... Joffre was born at Rivesaltes , a village at the foot of the French Pyrenees , in 1852. He came of humble stock and from a large family , for his father , a cooper , had eleven children to support . In 1870 , when Joffre was still a ...
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... Joffre . Joffre did not really care if the British made a breakthrough on the Somme . If they did that would be a bonus , but he had two other aims , one immediate , one long - term , both of which he considered more important than any ...
... Joffre . Joffre did not really care if the British made a breakthrough on the Somme . If they did that would be a bonus , but he had two other aims , one immediate , one long - term , both of which he considered more important than any ...
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... Joffre and Foch met Asquith , at that time still Prime Minister , and Lloyd George , Secretary for War , together with Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France and various other members of the French Government . Joffre briefed the ...
... Joffre and Foch met Asquith , at that time still Prime Minister , and Lloyd George , Secretary for War , together with Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France and various other members of the French Government . Joffre briefed 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