The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Salient was now being swept with artillery fire , the threat of an immediate defeat had been averted . Even so , unless the French could counter - attack and restore the original front line , the Salient might have to be evacuated ...
... Salient was now being swept with artillery fire , the threat of an immediate defeat had been averted . Even so , unless the French could counter - attack and restore the original front line , the Salient might have to be evacuated ...
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... Salient , or at the least a large part of the Salient , would have to be evacuated . That in turn would create a large gap in the Allied line - how large no one could say - and introduce the strong possibility that the Germans could ...
... Salient , or at the least a large part of the Salient , would have to be evacuated . That in turn would create a large gap in the Allied line - how large no one could say - and introduce the strong possibility that the Germans could ...
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... Salient well . All three had commanded corps in the battles of First or Second Ypres , or both . All three had spent at least one winter in the Salient , and had seen what the ground could turn to after prolonged rain and heavy bombard ...
... Salient well . All three had commanded corps in the battles of First or Second Ypres , or both . All three had spent at least one winter in the Salient , and had seen what the ground could turn to after prolonged rain and heavy bombard ...
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