Good morning my classmates and Mr Mcconville, today I’m here to tell you about the Battle of the Somme, the biggest battles within WW1. In early 1916, the French initiated a joint offensive with the British along the valley of the Somme, France. The Somme Offensive took place between the 1st of July to the 18th of November 1916. The Somme offensive was intended to achieve a victory over the Germans on the Western Front after just under 2 years of stalemate deadlock. This battle was mainly a return fire at the Germans for deploying their troops to attack the French in the battle of Verdun. The First day of this battle was reputably the bloodiest. The British suffered over 57 000 casualties, and the French with other fewer divisions resulted …show more content…
For the next two weeks the British made many smaller scale attacks on the Germans in preparation for the big assault they were planning. On the 4th of July, the allied forces engaged in combat to control Mametz Wood and other forests nearby as part of the Battle of the Bazentin Ridge. This progress was very slow, however, pressure was built on the Germans to redeploy the soldiers that fought at Verdun to assist in defending their …show more content…
The 15th of July marked the day that the south African brigade occupied Delville wood. The Germans used machine guns and artillery to form a strong counter attack, holding back the infiltrators. Undaunted by the weather, the south Africans advanced through the mud- battlefield and eventually gained this land. 143 men were left standing from the 3000 that this battle began with. The first ANZAC troops, made up of 3 Australian divisions, first joined war in July. They came to assist the allies in surging the village of Pozieres, above Theipval ridge. After 6 weeks of battle the British and the ANZACs failed to take Mouquet Farm, 12000 Australian casualties were claimed and one of the worst days of war in Australian history. The Battle of Flers Courclette was the debut of tanks being used as part of the Allied artillery. This battle was the third and final general offensive from the British army. They attack the German lines to take Morval, Gaudecourt and other nearby places. The British attacks were paired with the French attacks on rancourt and Fregicourt. These attacks were strategically planned to encircle Combles and an attack on the Somme in support of the
The Canadians advanced behind a creeping barrage, which is a precise line of intense artillery fire advancing at a set rate, timed to the minute. This allowed other soldiers to capture German positions in the moments after the explosions, before the enemy soldiers emerged from their underground bunkers. By the afternoon, Canadian forces had taken all of their objectives, except for one where troops were facing the worst terrain and toughest enemy defences. It took three more days of fighting before the Canadians were finally able to gain control of this last part of the front. The Battle of Vimy Ridge was over, and the Germans were forced to withdraw three kilometres.
There were many battles between the British and the colonists. Lexington and concord, and the battle of Bunker Hill and that's only two. Lexington and concord was the first war engagements held between the British and the people. Two hundred forty people died in Lexington and concord. Next was the battle at Bunker Hill. Bunker Hill was the deadliest battle throughout the revolutionary war. One thousand people perished In this engagement.
The ANZAC Legend ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as ANZACS, and the pride they soon took in that name endures to this day. The ANZAC legend began with the landing at Gallipoli on April 25 1915, signaling the start of the disastrous Dardanelles campaign on the Turk Peninsula. This campaign saw thousands of ANZAC fatalities before its conclusion in January 1916. Significantly, the ANZAC legend is the result of a devastating loss, rather than a great victory.
The battle started when the British sixth air born division went in at ten minutes after midnight. They were the first troops to go into action. The second attack was by the eighty second in the one hundred and first division of air born attacks. They were less successful than the first division.
On June, 17th 1775 began a fight between the British and the Americans, it took place on Breed’s HIll. In Charlestown Peninsula, North side of Boston Harbor, this battle was the bloodest of the Revoltionary in America. The British Commander, Lieutenant General Thomas Gage, Major General William Howe. There were about 2,400 troops being lead by Major general Howe.
Ending in 51,112 casualties, the Battle of Gettysburg was a three day series of conflict between the Union and the Confederate, starting on July 1st, and lasting until July 3rd. Combined, George G. Meade, Union General, and Robert E. Lee, Confederate General,
The ANZACS didn’t know how much bloodshed there was going to be and they were told that the war would be over by Christmas 1915. It obviously wasn’t and it stretched on for more than 4 years from the time it started. With the setback of the Gallipoli landing, the soldiers pulled together and fought bravely. The Turkish Army lost 80 000 Soldiers in the fight at Gallipoli, the ANZACS only lost 7800.
World War I, also known as the Great War, lasted from the summer of 1914 until the late fall of 1918. The war was fought between the Allies, which consisted mainly of the United Kingdom, France, and the Russian Empire, and the Central Powers, which consisted mainly of the German Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria (Alliances - Entente and Central Powers). In total, it is estimated that twelve million civilians and nine million combatants died during this horrific and devastating war (DeGroot 1). When the war first began in 1914, many people thought that it would be a war of movement that would quickly be over. However, that changed when the Germans, who were trying to reach and capture the city of Paris in France, were forced to retreat during the Battle of the Marne in September 1914 (Ellis 10). German General von Falkenhayn, who felt that his troops must at all cost hold onto the parts of France and Belgium that they had overtaken, ordered his men to dig in and form defensive trench lines (Ellis 10). The Allies could not break through the enemies lines and were forced to create trenches of their own (Ellis 10). This was only the beginning of trench warfare. A war of movement had quickly come to a standstill on the Western Front. A massive trench line, 475 miles long, quickly spread and extended from the North Sea to the Swiss Frontier (Ellis 10). With neither side budging, soldiers were forced to live in the most miserable of conditions. Simply put, life in the trenches was a living hell. A lieutenant of the 2nd Scottish rifles wrote, “No one who was not there can fully appreciate the excruciating agonies and misery through which the men had to go [through] in those da...
The prelude to the Battle of the Bulge began on a winter day in mid-December of 1944. Three powerful German divisions, were the last German offensives in the west at that time during World War II. They began after the Normandy invasion in June 1944. Allied had forces swept rapidly through France but became stalled along the German border earlier that year in September. On December 16, 1944 taking advantage of the weather, which kept the Allied aircraft on the ground, the Germans launched a counteroffensive through the semi-mountainous and heavily-forested Ardennes region in Germany, and advanced 31 miles into Belgium and northern Luxembourg near the Meuse River. Their goal was to trap four allied armies, divide the Americans and the British to force negotiated peace along the western front, and retake the vital seaport of Antwerp in Belgium. Thinking the Ardennes was the least likely spot for a German offensive, American staff commander chose to keep the thin line, so that manpower might concentrate on offensives north and south of the Ardennes known as the "bulge" in the Allied lines. These American lines were thinly held by three divisions in the Allied Army and part of a forth division, while fifth division was making a local attack and the sixth division was in reserve. Division sectors were more than double the width of normal defensive fronts, therefore there were more men scattered along a larger area. The German advance was halted near the Meuse River in late December. Even though the German Offensive achieved total surprise, nowhere did the American troops give ground without a fight. Within three days, the determined American stand and the arrival of powerful reinforcements insured that the ambitious German goal was far beyond reach. In snow and sub-freezing temperatures the Germans fell short of their interim objective- to reach the rambling Meuse River on the edge of the Ardennes. But they managed to avoid being cut off by an Allied Pincer movement.
In World War 1 (WW1), 1914-1918, Australian troops became involved in order to give support to the "Mother Country". Great Britain only became involved after Germany did not respect the neutrality of Belgium. In the first world war, Australian soldiers participated in some of the bloodiest and most enduring battles known to man, and soon developed a courageous name for themselves. Of the 330 000 Aussie soldiers who took part in WW1, there were 211 500 casualties and over 60 000 deaths, a casualty rate much higher than that of several other participants.
A leading cause of this battle was the attack on Fort Douaumont. The French had a plan to reclaim their fort that was taken by the German Army. About 500,000 men were positioned into two forts, Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux. The Germans did not have the advance in the war as they anticipated. Both armies believed that they were skilled enough to win this battle, but the French would soon take over and recover the territory that they had lost. On October 24, 1916, the French repossessed Fort Douaumont. Erich von Falkenhayn was not happy with the retrieval of the land because of the rank of the French Army at this point in the war.
August 30, 1918, the First Army, under the direction of General Pershing took command of the battle front between Port sur Sielle and Verdun (see Map 1). The battle line ran from East of Verdun, South to St. Mihiel and turned West to Port sur Sielle (see Map 1). The Area itself was mostly made up of plains with some spots of woods here and there. It was all fairly low ground with large ponds and swampy areas.
They took position on the field, with the loss of almost half of their men. It was also the first moral boost for the Continental Army. They withstood two attacks from the British and suffered only a few casualties. With the right supplies, they could have withstood a third charge and maybe a fourth. British soldiers near death or already dead are scattered around the battlefield; many more will soon meet the same fate.
The bombardment would effectively cut through the enemy’s barbed wire, while smashing fortified positions and dug-outs. Haig placed so much faith in the power of British guns, that he expected men to be capable of walking across no-man’s land, carrying heavy packs with provisions and trench repair equipment to rebuild the captured territory upon arrival. The final piece of the plan saw cavalry forces, kept in readiness, to charge through gaps in the German front line and cause a mass-retreat of enemy forces. In hindsight, we can see that the offensive very much failed to live up to expectations. Such terrible failure is possibly attributable to poor tactics and leadership on the part of Douglas Haig and his advisors.
the Somme that had raged from the 1st of July 1916, when over 19 000