The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Lieutenant - General Sir Douglas Haig , Major - General Henry Wilson and members of the General Staff . The purpose of these meetings was to decide what to do and there was considerable discussion of the various options , including a ...
... Lieutenant - General Sir Douglas Haig , Major - General Henry Wilson and members of the General Staff . The purpose of these meetings was to decide what to do and there was considerable discussion of the various options , including a ...
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... Lieutenant - General Sir Horace Smith - Dorrien . Just after midnight on 23 April the French again declared that their 45th Division was ready to counter - attack , shortly after dawn , and again asked General Plumer for support ...
... Lieutenant - General Sir Horace Smith - Dorrien . Just after midnight on 23 April the French again declared that their 45th Division was ready to counter - attack , shortly after dawn , and again asked General Plumer for support ...
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... Lieutenant - General Sir Henry Horne's First Army , with the strong Can- adian Corps facing Vimy Ridge . Horne is the ' unknown ' general of the Great War . He kept no diary , wrote no autobiography , had no biographer , and is referred ...
... Lieutenant - General Sir Henry Horne's First Army , with the strong Can- adian Corps facing Vimy Ridge . Horne is the ' unknown ' general of the Great War . He kept no diary , wrote no autobiography , had no biographer , and is referred ...
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