The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... plan to combat the problems of ' encirclement ' , a scheme masterminded by the then Chief of the German Imperial Staff , General Count Alfred von Schlieffen . Schlieffen believed that in the event of war - and he regarded war as ...
... plan to combat the problems of ' encirclement ' , a scheme masterminded by the then Chief of the German Imperial Staff , General Count Alfred von Schlieffen . Schlieffen believed that in the event of war - and he regarded war as ...
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... Schlieffen Plan passed through various drafts but was finally adopted in 1905. The French Plan XVII will be discussed later , but it was the Schlieffen Plan which escalated the war , for it dictated that Germany must mobilise and strike ...
... Schlieffen Plan passed through various drafts but was finally adopted in 1905. The French Plan XVII will be discussed later , but it was the Schlieffen Plan which escalated the war , for it dictated that Germany must mobilise and strike ...
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... Schlieffen Plan depended on speed . While the German armies were assembling along the frontiers of Belgium , Luxemburg and France , this advanced force had crossed into Belgium to invest Liège , which elements of the German Second Army ...
... Schlieffen Plan depended on speed . While the German armies were assembling along the frontiers of Belgium , Luxemburg and France , this advanced force had crossed into Belgium to invest Liège , which elements of the German Second Army ...
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