The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... miles from the front line , and under his direct command . Haig , never one to give up easily , kept up the pressure , writing to ask French to put the leading troops of XI Corps at least as far forward as Noeux - les - Mines , three miles ...
... miles from the front line , and under his direct command . Haig , never one to give up easily , kept up the pressure , writing to ask French to put the leading troops of XI Corps at least as far forward as Noeux - les - Mines , three miles ...
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... mile . The same care was shown in attempts to protect the ever - vital communications . More miles of buried cable were added to the fifteen hundred miles of circuit wire already in use , and the latest means of communication , wireless ...
... mile . The same care was shown in attempts to protect the ever - vital communications . More miles of buried cable were added to the fifteen hundred miles of circuit wire already in use , and the latest means of communication , wireless ...
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... miles ahead of their lines at Cerisy , and was to be taken by the 2nd and 3rd Australian Divisions , after which the 4th and 5th would pass through to take the second objective , between two and three miles further on , at Morcourt ...
... miles ahead of their lines at Cerisy , and was to be taken by the 2nd and 3rd Australian Divisions , after which the 4th and 5th would pass through to take the second objective , between two and three miles further on , at Morcourt ...
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