The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... enemy and prevent him gaining enough ground and time to reorganise , find a good defensive position and dig in . A retreating enemy has to be kept moving and hustled out of any likely defensive position before he has time to use it ...
... enemy and prevent him gaining enough ground and time to reorganise , find a good defensive position and dig in . A retreating enemy has to be kept moving and hustled out of any likely defensive position before he has time to use it ...
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... enemy out of Ghent . The right ofI Corps was to pass through Ypres and , having reached the top of the low eastern hills , Haig could decide whether to attack the enemy in the north or the north - east . Haig would be supported by de ...
... enemy out of Ghent . The right ofI Corps was to pass through Ypres and , having reached the top of the low eastern hills , Haig could decide whether to attack the enemy in the north or the north - east . Haig would be supported by de ...
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... enemy trenches . The leading tanks would carry ' fascines ' , great rolled - up bundles of timber which they would release into the enemy trenches to create a bridge over which the machines could cross . Thirty - two tanks were equipped ...
... enemy trenches . The leading tanks would carry ' fascines ' , great rolled - up bundles of timber which they would release into the enemy trenches to create a bridge over which the machines could cross . Thirty - two tanks were equipped ...
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