The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... 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 entered on 5 August . The city itself was abandoned ...
... 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 entered on 5 August . The city itself was abandoned ...
Page 388
... Second Army a foothold looking north , along the crest of the ridge leading towards the Gheluvelt Plateau . The seizure of the Messines - Wytschaete Ridge gained the high ground overlooking the Salient and enabled Second Army to protect ...
... Second Army a foothold looking north , along the crest of the ridge leading towards the Gheluvelt Plateau . The seizure of the Messines - Wytschaete Ridge gained the high ground overlooking the Salient and enabled Second Army to protect ...
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... Second Army losing 9,000 men killed , wounded and missing , and Fifth Army around 11,000 . The German defences around the Salient had not been able to stop a well - planned attack and , thus encouraged , Haig felt able to proceed . By ...
... Second Army losing 9,000 men killed , wounded and missing , and Fifth Army around 11,000 . The German defences around the Salient had not been able to stop a well - planned attack and , thus encouraged , Haig felt able to proceed . 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