The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... 17 August , and General Lanrezac was a worried man . He had good reason to be worried . The French Army was poised to implement Plan XVII , which called for four out of the five French armies , a force totalling around 800,000 men , to ...
... 17 August , and General Lanrezac was a worried man . He had good reason to be worried . The French Army was poised to implement Plan XVII , which called for four out of the five French armies , a force totalling around 800,000 men , to ...
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... Plan depended on speed . While the German armies were assembling along the frontiers of Belgium , Luxemburg and ... XVII , but this static German frontier defence was in fact a part of the Schlieffen Plan , which was now starting to ...
... Plan depended on speed . While the German armies were assembling along the frontiers of Belgium , Luxemburg and ... XVII , but this static German frontier defence was in fact a part of the Schlieffen Plan , which was now starting to ...
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... Plan XVII . By the following day the French First and Second Armies , having suffered terrible losses , were in full retreat towards Nancy , a city that might have fallen but for the stubborn defence put up by XX Corps , commanded by ...
... Plan XVII . By the following day the French First and Second Armies , having suffered terrible losses , were in full retreat towards Nancy , a city that might have fallen but for the stubborn defence put up by XX Corps , commanded by ...
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