The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Ypres . The focus now turns to the British front which , by mid - October 1914 , lay between the La Bassée Canal and the Flanders cloth town of Ypres , a city of some 20,000 inhabitants situated a few miles south of Dixmude . The German ...
... Ypres . The focus now turns to the British front which , by mid - October 1914 , lay between the La Bassée Canal and the Flanders cloth town of Ypres , a city of some 20,000 inhabitants situated a few miles south of Dixmude . The German ...
Page 110
... Ypres was an ' encounter battle ' between the Anglo - French and Belgian forces trying to advance east past Lille and turn the enemy's line , and the Germans attempting to push west , take Ypres , drive the British into the sea , and ...
... Ypres was an ' encounter battle ' between the Anglo - French and Belgian forces trying to advance east past Lille and turn the enemy's line , and the Germans attempting to push west , take Ypres , drive the British into the sea , and ...
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... Ypres Ridge today , up from low - lying Langemarck to Passchen- daele and then on round to Messines : the gain in height over the plain towards Ypres seems imperceptible , but the observation obtained is easy to appreciate . The towers of ...
... Ypres Ridge today , up from low - lying Langemarck to Passchen- daele and then on round to Messines : the gain in height over the plain towards Ypres seems imperceptible , but the observation obtained is easy to appreciate . The towers of ...
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