The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... fighting that day ; units of the 3rd Division were still coming in to Le Cateau at midnight . Snow's 4th Division , though not under Smith - Dorrien's command , had been fighting at Solèmes , north of Le Cateau , and did not reach its ...
... fighting that day ; units of the 3rd Division were still coming in to Le Cateau at midnight . Snow's 4th Division , though not under Smith - Dorrien's command , had been fighting at Solèmes , north of Le Cateau , and did not reach its ...
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... fighting . The Germans were not quite fought out , but that evening , as Falkenhayn records , OHL , the German High Command , debated the wisdom of diverting their efforts to some other part of the Allied line . In the end the decision ...
... fighting . The Germans were not quite fought out , but that evening , as Falkenhayn records , OHL , the German High Command , debated the wisdom of diverting their efforts to some other part of the Allied line . In the end the decision ...
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Robin Neillands. Fifth Army , fighting for the Houthulst Forest . This lower ground was an ocean of knee - deep mud , and the troops fighting through it were soon completely exhausted . The Canadian attack on the 30th went in at dawn ...
Robin Neillands. Fifth Army , fighting for the Houthulst Forest . This lower ground was an ocean of knee - deep mud , and the troops fighting through it were soon completely exhausted . The Canadian attack on the 30th went in at dawn ...
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