The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... cavalry ' accusation . Quite why it was wrong to have served in a cavalry regiment is never made clear , except by a vague indication that the horse - obsessed cavalry officer could not handle infantry , and again there is a whiff of ...
... cavalry ' accusation . Quite why it was wrong to have served in a cavalry regiment is never made clear , except by a vague indication that the horse - obsessed cavalry officer could not handle infantry , and again there is a whiff of ...
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... cavalry squad- rons , one each from the 5th Lancers and the 5th Dragoon Guards , who did some execution with lance and sabre . French was to command the cavalry for most of the war and , after escaping from the siege of Ladysmith , he ...
... cavalry squad- rons , one each from the 5th Lancers and the 5th Dragoon Guards , who did some execution with lance and sabre . French was to command the cavalry for most of the war and , after escaping from the siege of Ladysmith , he ...
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... Cavalry Divisions to pull back to Fins . This they duly did , and most of the 1st Cavalry Division , which had been champing at the bit in the Grand Ravine all day , came back with them . Elsewhere , those cavalry regiments that did get ...
... Cavalry Divisions to pull back to Fins . This they duly did , and most of the 1st Cavalry Division , which had been champing at the bit in the Grand Ravine all day , came back with them . Elsewhere , those cavalry regiments that did get ...
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