The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... infantry divi- sions and a cavalry division . Each infantry division consisted of three brigades and each brigade contained four infantry battalions , as well as brigade and divisional troops . By 1914 , each infantry battalion also con ...
... infantry divi- sions and a cavalry division . Each infantry division consisted of three brigades and each brigade contained four infantry battalions , as well as brigade and divisional troops . By 1914 , each infantry battalion also con ...
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... infantry from direct fire . In fact , this explosion only served to alert the Germans to the imminent assault . Risking the shellfire , they were out of cover and manning their defences when the British infantry attack came in . The ...
... infantry from direct fire . In fact , this explosion only served to alert the Germans to the imminent assault . Risking the shellfire , they were out of cover and manning their defences when the British infantry attack came in . The ...
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... infantry commanders in tank tactics and stressed , from bitter experience in earlier tank engagements , that the tanks and infantry must stay together for mutual support , the former to tackle the wire , trenches and machine - guns that ...
... infantry commanders in tank tactics and stressed , from bitter experience in earlier tank engagements , that the tanks and infantry must stay together for mutual support , the former to tackle the wire , trenches and machine - guns that ...
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