Trench Warfare

Scots on the Western Front

Trench warfare -

Experience on the Western Front

- before trenches, there were calvary charges and men on horseback with swords.

- Late summer 1914, germany invaded France and almost reached the Eiffle tower but failed to seize Paris and force the french to surrender. 

- Once halted, the Germans started digging trenches to shelter from enemy fire. The British and French did the same. 

- soon, networks of trenches stretched for 400 miles from the channel coast to the Swiss border. This was the Western Front.

- since trenche were dug, a stalemate continued for the next four years.

Defence 

- trenches were seven feet deep and six feet wide,duckboards at bottom to protect against the…