The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... began to travel north on the night of 2 October . The 2nd Cavalry Division went first , by road , followed by II Corps , which began to move by rail from Compiègne to Flanders on 5 October , followed a short time later by Pulteney's III ...
... began to travel north on the night of 2 October . The 2nd Cavalry Division went first , by road , followed by II Corps , which began to move by rail from Compiègne to Flanders on 5 October , followed a short time later by Pulteney's III ...
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... began to slip ; casualties mounted , ammunition and grenades began to run out , the ever - resilient German defenders began to work their way forward down the trenches . By 1400 hours the Germans were ready to deliver a heavy artillery ...
... began to slip ; casualties mounted , ammunition and grenades began to run out , the ever - resilient German defenders began to work their way forward down the trenches . By 1400 hours the Germans were ready to deliver a heavy artillery ...
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... began on his front with a pre - dawn bombardment of his divisional positions , which gradually spread down the entire VII Corps line . After an hour of this , three divisions of General von Kathen's Busigny Group launched a fierce ...
... began on his front with a pre - dawn bombardment of his divisional positions , which gradually spread down the entire VII Corps line . After an hour of this , three divisions of General von Kathen's Busigny Group launched a fierce ...
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