The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Lanrezac , commanding the French Fifth Army , the force that would lie on the right flank of the BEF , was one of the finest officers in the French Army . French drove directly from Vitry - le- François to Lanrezac's headquarters at ...
... Lanrezac , commanding the French Fifth Army , the force that would lie on the right flank of the BEF , was one of the finest officers in the French Army . French drove directly from Vitry - le- François to Lanrezac's headquarters at ...
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... Lanrezac's Fifth Army and the BEF were about to be attacked by yet more German armies . In round figures , three German armies , mustering thirty - four divisions , were about to fall on the ten divisions of Lanzerac's Fifth Army and ...
... Lanrezac's Fifth Army and the BEF were about to be attacked by yet more German armies . In round figures , three German armies , mustering thirty - four divisions , were about to fall on the ten divisions of Lanzerac's Fifth Army and ...
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... Lanrezac . On the 28th , while the retreat continued , Haig sent a liaison officer to Lanrezac's HQ , pointing out that the south - westward direction of Kluck's advance presented his left flank towards them , provid- ing the chance for ...
... Lanrezac . On the 28th , while the retreat continued , Haig sent a liaison officer to Lanrezac's HQ , pointing out that the south - westward direction of Kluck's advance presented his left flank towards them , provid- ing the chance for ...
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