The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... move the 7th Division forward to support the 8th until 1315 hours , and it was not until 1400 , five hours after the German positions and strongpoints around Neuve Chapelle had been taken , that the former division was ordered to ...
... move the 7th Division forward to support the 8th until 1315 hours , and it was not until 1400 , five hours after the German positions and strongpoints around Neuve Chapelle had been taken , that the former division was ordered to ...
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... move on Haisnes , but the timing of the move was unclear . The divisional commander , Major - General G. H. Thesiger , wanted Bruce to wait for an order to proceed , whereas the latter understood that he should move his men as ...
... move on Haisnes , but the timing of the move was unclear . The divisional commander , Major - General G. H. Thesiger , wanted Bruce to wait for an order to proceed , whereas the latter understood that he should move his men as ...
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... move to Flesquières , on the mistaken assumption , based on an RFC report , that the village had been taken by the Highland Division . The rare sight of masses of horsemen moving up to the front was a wonderful spectacle to the files of ...
... move to Flesquières , on the mistaken assumption , based on an RFC report , that the village had been taken by the Highland Division . The rare sight of masses of horsemen moving up to the front was a wonderful spectacle to the files of ...
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