The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... tactics . The Allied generals and their men had to hang on , patch up the defence line , muster troops for yet another attack , and keep fighting . First Ypres was an ' encounter battle ' between the Anglo - French and Belgian forces ...
... tactics . The Allied generals and their men had to hang on , patch up the defence line , muster troops for yet another attack , and keep fighting . First Ypres was an ' encounter battle ' between the Anglo - French and Belgian forces ...
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... tactics adopted for their advance . The standard tactic for advancing under fire , one used by the British infantry in 1914-18 and still used by infantry today , is the process known as ' fire and movement ' , described earlier in his ...
... tactics adopted for their advance . The standard tactic for advancing under fire , one used by the British infantry in 1914-18 and still used by infantry today , is the process known as ' fire and movement ' , described earlier in his ...
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... tactics ordered in the pamphlet were implemented then the pre - war , commonsense tactic of fire and move- ment became impossible . There was simply no provision for fire and movement and the two tactics are incompatible . Among the ...
... tactics ordered in the pamphlet were implemented then the pre - war , commonsense tactic of fire and move- ment became impossible . There was simply no provision for fire and movement and the two tactics are incompatible . Among the ...
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