The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... advance gave an advantage to the retreating enemy . Haig saw this as the advance began , recording in his diary for 7 September : ' I thought our movements very slow today , in view of the fact that the enemy was on the run . I motored ...
... advance gave an advantage to the retreating enemy . Haig saw this as the advance began , recording in his diary for 7 September : ' I thought our movements very slow today , in view of the fact that the enemy was on the run . I motored ...
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... advance should ' dress by the left ' and stay in line with the units on their flanks . Thus Haig's advance was constrained by the progress made by the French IX Corps on his left , while IV Corps on his right had to wait for Haig's ...
... advance should ' dress by the left ' and stay in line with the units on their flanks . Thus Haig's advance was constrained by the progress made by the French IX Corps on his left , while IV Corps on his right had to wait for Haig's ...
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Robin Neillands. tactic , the ' creeping barrage ' , in which the infantry advances as close as possible to the supporting barrage , which ' lifts ' a specified distance of specific intervals - thus troops and barrage advance together ...
Robin Neillands. tactic , the ' creeping barrage ' , in which the infantry advances as close as possible to the supporting barrage , which ' lifts ' a specified distance of specific intervals - thus troops and barrage advance together ...
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