The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... yards though two defence lines and various strongpoints , an ambitious aim . Two features of this attack were the gap of some 600 yards between the right of the 1st Division and the left of the 15th , and the remains of a cherry tree ...
... yards though two defence lines and various strongpoints , an ambitious aim . Two features of this attack were the gap of some 600 yards between the right of the 1st Division and the left of the 15th , and the remains of a cherry tree ...
Page 254
... yards at Ovillers , to less than 50 yards at a much - mined point just south of La Boisselle known as the ' Glory Hole ' . Of the two shallow valleys on either side of La Boisselle , Sausage and Mash , neither was more than 1,000 yards ...
... yards at Ovillers , to less than 50 yards at a much - mined point just south of La Boisselle known as the ' Glory Hole ' . Of the two shallow valleys on either side of La Boisselle , Sausage and Mash , neither was more than 1,000 yards ...
Page 259
... yards in width and was open and bare of cover except for a sunken lane running north from the Auchonvillers - Beaumont Hamel road . The Official History describes the German defences here as ' a form of amphitheatre , confronting the ...
... yards in width and was open and bare of cover except for a sunken lane running north from the Auchonvillers - Beaumont Hamel road . The Official History describes the German defences here as ' a form of amphitheatre , confronting 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