The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Messines , and deploying one battery of 8 - inch howitzers for the destruction of Wytschaete alone . This bombardment was followed , at 0100 hours on 1 November , with an assault on the village by nine battalions of the 6th Bavarian ...
... Messines , and deploying one battery of 8 - inch howitzers for the destruction of Wytschaete alone . This bombardment was followed , at 0100 hours on 1 November , with an assault on the village by nine battalions of the 6th Bavarian ...
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... Messines the Second Army had already made most of the necessary preparations . The order finally came on 7 May 1917 , when Haig asked Plumer how soon he would be in a position to attack the Messines - Wytschaete Ridge ? " Today in a ...
... Messines the Second Army had already made most of the necessary preparations . The order finally came on 7 May 1917 , when Haig asked Plumer how soon he would be in a position to attack the Messines - Wytschaete Ridge ? " Today in a ...
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... Messines was finally made , it should be supported by the explosion of mines beneath the German lines . These were dug deep under the Messines - Wytschaete Ridge , in the blue clay that underpinned the mud - and - shale topsoil , and ...
... Messines was finally made , it should be supported by the explosion of mines beneath the German lines . These were dug deep under the Messines - Wytschaete Ridge , in the blue clay that underpinned the mud - and - shale topsoil , and ...
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