The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... losses for the period 14 October to 30 November total 58,155 men , killed , wounded and missing , the killed and missing totalling 25,833 , with 614 officers , 6,794 British and 522 Indian other ranks being definitely recorded as killed ...
... losses for the period 14 October to 30 November total 58,155 men , killed , wounded and missing , the killed and missing totalling 25,833 , with 614 officers , 6,794 British and 522 Indian other ranks being definitely recorded as killed ...
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... losses of the rest . This is a ' human - wave ' tactic , and a dangerous practice on two grounds . Firstly , it will not work against an unreduced position manned by a resolute enemy equipped with an abundance of automatic weapons ...
... losses of the rest . This is a ' human - wave ' tactic , and a dangerous practice on two grounds . Firstly , it will not work against an unreduced position manned by a resolute enemy equipped with an abundance of automatic weapons ...
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... losses coming to just over 44,000 , and German losses being estimated at between 45,000 and 55,000 . Some 10,000 German soldiers had been taken prisoner on 20 November , while over 6,000 British troops had been captured in the German ...
... losses coming to just over 44,000 , and German losses being estimated at between 45,000 and 55,000 . Some 10,000 German soldiers had been taken prisoner on 20 November , while over 6,000 British troops had been captured in the German ...
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