The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... strongpoints around Neuve Chapelle had been taken , that the former division was ordered to advance towards Aubers Ridge . A similar delay had occurred on the Indian Corps front , where General Willcocks was still encountering ...
... strongpoints around Neuve Chapelle had been taken , that the former division was ordered to advance towards Aubers Ridge . A similar delay had occurred on the Indian Corps front , where General Willcocks was still encountering ...
Page 352
... strongpoint . Then came Givenchy - en - Gohelle , a large ruined village in which every cellar contained a machine - gun ... strongpoints - this trench , Hill 145 and , on the far left , the Pimple , from which the defenders were pouring ...
... strongpoint . Then came Givenchy - en - Gohelle , a large ruined village in which every cellar contained a machine - gun ... strongpoints - this trench , Hill 145 and , on the far left , the Pimple , from which the defenders were pouring ...
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... strongpoints and dug - in defensive positions , or protected by small reinforced - concrete shelters . The latter , once blasted by gunfire , stood out clearly against the dark soil , and thus came to be known from their appearance as ...
... strongpoints and dug - in defensive positions , or protected by small reinforced - concrete shelters . The latter , once blasted by gunfire , stood out clearly against the dark soil , and thus came to be known from their appearance as ...
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