The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... front - line trenches , which should by now be clear of the attacking battalions . According to Haig's ideas , the British front - line and reserve divisions should make their respective moves forward as one , the reserves entering the ...
... front - line trenches , which should by now be clear of the attacking battalions . According to Haig's ideas , the British front - line and reserve divisions should make their respective moves forward as one , the reserves entering the ...
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... front line and therefore had the Hindenburg Line as their first objective , after the other corps had come up into line by taking their initial objectives . As a result , the attack of the 21st Division of VII Corps , on the right , did ...
... front line and therefore had the Hindenburg Line as their first objective , after the other corps had come up into line by taking their initial objectives . As a result , the attack of the 21st Division of VII Corps , on the right , did ...
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... Line ' . This was some 3,000 yards from the British line and represented an advance of roughly twice that originally proposed by Plumer . The assault would be in phases , beginning with an attack on the German front line , then moving ...
... Line ' . This was some 3,000 yards from the British line and represented an advance of roughly twice that originally proposed by Plumer . The assault would be in phases , beginning with an attack on the German front line , then moving ...
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