The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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Robin Neillands. that the battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 was fought as much to prove a point as to achieve an objective . However , the attack did have a physical objective . The country around Neuve Chapelle is dreary , a flat ...
Robin Neillands. that the battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 was fought as much to prove a point as to achieve an objective . However , the attack did have a physical objective . The country around Neuve Chapelle is dreary , a flat ...
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... Neuve Chapelle had been taken , that the former division was ordered to advance towards Aubers Ridge . A similar delay had occurred on the Indian Corps front , where General Willcocks was still encountering ... Neuve Chapelle to Festubert.
... Neuve Chapelle had been taken , that the former division was ordered to advance towards Aubers Ridge . A similar delay had occurred on the Indian Corps front , where General Willcocks was still encountering ... Neuve Chapelle to Festubert.
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... Neuve Chapelle but had not sighted any troop trains , so Haig assumed that the only German reinforcements likely to have arrived overnight were from local divisions . In fact , by dawn on the 11th , the ... Neuve Chapelle to Festubert 177.
... Neuve Chapelle but had not sighted any troop trains , so Haig assumed that the only German reinforcements likely to have arrived overnight were from local divisions . In fact , by dawn on the 11th , the ... Neuve Chapelle to Festubert 177.
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