The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Vimy Ridge as its main objective , while the British First Army was to attack a day later , the main assault between Festubert and Neuve Chapelle to be made by I Corps and the Indian Corps , supported by an attack by IV Corps thrusting ...
... Vimy Ridge as its main objective , while the British First Army was to attack a day later , the main assault between Festubert and Neuve Chapelle to be made by I Corps and the Indian Corps , supported by an attack by IV Corps thrusting ...
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... Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps of First Army , claiming , correctly , that he could not go forward from Arras and leave this fortress in his rear . The British had taken over the Vimy section of the front in the spring of 1916 , and ...
... Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps of First Army , claiming , correctly , that he could not go forward from Arras and leave this fortress in his rear . The British had taken over the Vimy section of the front in the spring of 1916 , and ...
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... Vimy Ridge . Vimy Ridge runs for some seven miles , roughly north to south , from Notre- Dame - de - Lorette to Écurie . From the west the land rises gradually to the crest , and the ' ridge ' itself is not a sharp edge but a wide ...
... Vimy Ridge . Vimy Ridge runs for some seven miles , roughly north to south , from Notre- Dame - de - Lorette to Écurie . From the west the land rises gradually to the crest , and the ' ridge ' itself is not a sharp edge but a wide ...
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