The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... forward thereafter . If the line could be breached , as at Neuve Chapelle , then Field Marshal French had a large ... forward of artillery pieces , and batteries of mortars were attached to the assault battalions for use against enemy ...
... forward thereafter . If the line could be breached , as at Neuve Chapelle , then Field Marshal French had a large ... forward of artillery pieces , and batteries of mortars were attached to the assault battalions for use against enemy ...
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... forward elements had pushed forward 1,000 yards . Elsewhere the British troops were back in their own trenches , and everywhere their losses had been terrible . With the exceptions noted above , the troops had been well handled and ...
... forward elements had pushed forward 1,000 yards . Elsewhere the British troops were back in their own trenches , and everywhere their losses had been terrible . With the exceptions noted above , the troops had been well handled and ...
Page 402
... forward to see the ground for himself , and returned worried by the appalling conditions and upset by the large number of unburied dead . One of his next directives was to order canvas bolt - and- magazine covers for every rifle and ...
... forward to see the ground for himself , and returned worried by the appalling conditions and upset by the large number of unburied dead . One of his next directives was to order canvas bolt - and- magazine covers for every rifle and ...
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