The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... sent out , and sent quickly , for the troops , the front - line battalions of the BEF , were now coming up , long columns of infantry , cavalry and artillery flooding over the cobbled roads of France , and concentrating around Le Cateau ...
... sent out , and sent quickly , for the troops , the front - line battalions of the BEF , were now coming up , long columns of infantry , cavalry and artillery flooding over the cobbled roads of France , and concentrating around Le Cateau ...
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... sent to General Smith - Dorrien carrying peremptory orders to break off the action and continue the retreat forthwith . ' This is a lie , and an easily detectable lie . The reply sent by GHQ to Smith Dorrien - the reply later refuted by ...
... sent to General Smith - Dorrien carrying peremptory orders to break off the action and continue the retreat forthwith . ' This is a lie , and an easily detectable lie . The reply sent by GHQ to Smith Dorrien - the reply later refuted by ...
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... sent his corps reserve of two battalions up to Zillebeke . Fortunately , the German attacks south of Ypres died out at dusk , but by then they had taken Hollebeke and Zandvoorde and forced the British centre back for more than a mile ...
... sent his corps reserve of two battalions up to Zillebeke . Fortunately , the German attacks south of Ypres died out at dusk , but by then they had taken Hollebeke and Zandvoorde and forced the British centre back for more than a mile ...
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