Major WW1 battles
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- Created on: 26-01-17 16:24
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- WW1 major battles
- Battle Verdun Feb-Dec 1916
- Verdun wasn't strategically important
- Forts disarmed
- Definitive French battle
- General Falkhayn launched counter-offensive
- There's a debate its intentions
- Break french lines
- Bleed the French
- There's a debate its intentions
- Verdun became iconic
- Raymond Poincare
- "The name of Verdun... now signifies among the neutrals, the allies, the most beautiful, the most pure, there is in the French soul"
- Raymond Poincare
- Deaths by December 1916
- 330,000 German
- 370,000 French
- Verdun wasn't strategically important
- Battle of Marne Sept 1914
- 5-12 September
- Germany got within 40 miles away from Paris
- French Government flees to Bordeaux
- Germany got within 40 miles away from Paris
- 2 million soldiers
- 250,000 French casualties
- Ended movement on the Western Front
- Set in place trench warfare
- After BEF and French offensive on 9th Sept
- Germans went into retreat
- 5-12 September
- Battle of the Somme
- Seen as the definitive British battle
- 420,000 British casualties
- 157,000 French casualties
- 650,000 German casualties
- Intended as a shared offensive
- Verdun lowered French participation
- Attempt to break German lines and achieve victory
- One week artillery bombardment
- Over a million shells
- Troops advance on July 1st 1916
- 20,000 losses and 60,000 casualties on the first day
- Continued until November 1916
- Myth of kicking a football to commence the attack
- One week artillery bombardment
- Seen as the definitive British battle
- Application of technology
- Aeroplanes 1917
- Mostly recon
- Fired pistols, dropped grenades and debris
- Very inaccurate
- Mostly recon
- Tanks (1916)
- First introduced in Battle of the Somme
- Unreliable but effective
- Germans learnt how to deal with them
- By the end of the war, the British had 8 tanks left
- Top speed on 4 mph
- First introduced in Battle of the Somme
- Battle of Ypres April 1915
- 20,000 affected by gas attack
- 600 left dying and/or blind
- 20,000 affected by gas attack
- Aeroplanes 1917
- Battle Verdun Feb-Dec 1916
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