The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... machine - guns might be , it was not until the outbreak of war that the Army grasped just how deadly this complicated weapon could be in the defensive role . The British troops also lacked hand grenades and a mortar to provide high ...
... machine - guns might be , it was not until the outbreak of war that the Army grasped just how deadly this complicated weapon could be in the defensive role . The British troops also lacked hand grenades and a mortar to provide high ...
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... heavy guns , and they were likely to maintain their lead for some time . In 1914 the Germans had over 10,000 artillery pieces , of which more than a third were heavy or super - heavy guns . In mid - 1915 the BEF had just 71 heavy guns ...
... heavy guns , and they were likely to maintain their lead for some time . In 1914 the Germans had over 10,000 artillery pieces , of which more than a third were heavy or super - heavy guns . In mid - 1915 the BEF had just 71 heavy guns ...
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... guns and 400 heavy guns and howitzers , twice the number available at Loos - these had to tackle a larger number of targets and a much longer trench line - or , rather , lines . The German positions were pounded by 1,010 field guns ...
... guns and 400 heavy guns and howitzers , twice the number available at Loos - these had to tackle a larger number of targets and a much longer trench line - or , rather , lines . The German positions were pounded by 1,010 field guns ...
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