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	Battle of the Somme (1916) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As horrific as the battle of the Somme is in British memory, it also had a staggering impact on the German army; one officer famously described it as "the muddy grave of the German field army".
		In one significant respect, the Battle of the Somme was a major strategic success for the British as on 12 July, in response to the Somme fighting and the situation in the east, Falkenhayn called off the German offensive at Verdun.
		The attack, known as the battle of Bazentin Ridge, was aimed at capturing the German second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from, on the Albert–Bapaume road, southeast towards the villages of and.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_the_Somme_(1916) (5750 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of the Somme, 1916
		Comprising the main Allied attack on the Western Front during 1916, the Battle of the Somme is famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops (one third of them killed) on the first day of the battle, 1 July 1916, which to this day remains a one-day record.
		The German Verdun offensive transformed the intent of the Somme attack; the French demanded that the planned date of the attack, 1 August 1916, be brought forward to 1 July, the aim chiefly being to divert German resources from Verdun in the defence of the Somme.
		Meanwhile the British attack was renewed in north-east, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, by the Fourth Army on 15 September.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/somme.htm (1956 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Battle of the Somme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The First Battle of the Somme was fought from July to November 1916.
		In this, the Allies were successful, because the Germans abandoned the Verdun offensive on July 16, 1916, and by the end of November had retreated from the Somme River to a previously prepared line of fortification and trenches, known as the Hindenburg Line.
		The battle is renowned for the first use, by the British, of the modern tank.
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	Articles - Battle of the Somme (1916) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The axis of the advance was centred on the Roman road that ran from Albert in the west to Bapaume 12 miles (19 km) to the northeast.
		The attack, known as the battle of Bazentin Ridge, was aimed at capturing the German second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from PoziÃ¨res, on the Albertâ€“Bapaume road, southeast towards the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy.
		The final act of the Battle of the Somme was played out between 13â€“18 November along the Ancre River, north of Thiepval.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Battle_of_the_Somme_(1916) (5266 words)

	The importance of the Battle of the Somme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The importance of the Battle of the Somme
		The battle of the Somme was an allies initiative and so the aims of the allies are most important to consider.
		The battle of the Somme was supposed to relieve pressure on the French city of Verdun.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~wausie/Somme.html (2224 words)

	The Somme - Veterans Affairs Canada
		At the battle of St. Eloi the 2nd Division received its "baptism of fire" in a battlefield of water-filled mine craters and shell holes.
		The Battle of the Somme was not a one day affair, and the fighting continued, notably with a largely successful dawn attack by the British on July 14, through the summer months.
		One German officer described the Somme as 'the muddy graveyard of the German army'; for the British it turned an army of eager, inexperienced recruits into a fighting machine on a par with those of France and Germany, but at a terrible cost in human life.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/canada/canada8 (1433 words)

	Battle of the Somme (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There were a number of Battles of the Somme during World War I:
		Battle of the Somme (1916) (1 July–18 November, 1916) - major Anglo-French offensive of 1916.
		See also The Battle of the Somme, a documentary film shot during the 1916 battle.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_the_Somme_(1918) (192 words)

	The Battle of The Somme
		Unfortunately, this meant there was little time for the recruited army to be battle tested, and they were going to be fed right into the war much sooner than expected.
		In order to confuse the enemy, the signs in the Somme region that an attack was coming had to be duplicated elsewhere, so bombardments and raids were conducted in other places along the line.
		Prior to the battle, the feeling amongst the British troops was that of sympathy for "poor old Jerry" who was going to die in the battle if he had not already been killed in the bombardment.
	www.geocities.com /greatwars/somme.htm (1876 words)

	Somme, Second Battle of the -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The name Battle of the Bulge was appropriated from Winston Churchill's optimistic description, in May 1940, of the resistance that he mistakenly supposed was being offered to the Germans'...
		Two battles in the fall of 1777 that marked the turning point for the Continental Army in the American Revolution were the Battles of Saratoga.
		The Battle of Marathon was a decisive victory for the Greeks during the Persian Wars.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9068665&query=somme (815 words)

	NSW HSC ONLINE - Modern History
		The Battle of the Somme (1st July until midNovember 1916) is significant for several reasons.
		The Battle of the Somme was actually a series of battles covering a 40 kilometre front, with the British troops (including the Australians, who were still under British command) fighting to the north, and the French fighting to the south of the Somme River.
		The words "authoritative work on one of the Greatest Battles in History" and "authentic pictures/by arrangement with the War Office" are to convince the public that it is being informed with authority and honesty on the progress of the battle.
	hsc.csu.edu.au /modern_history/core_study/ww1/somme/page85.htm (2513 words)

	The Ulster Division and the Battle of the Somme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, this was soon to pass, and the battle of this tragic, harrowing day was destined to be fought under a blue, cloudless sky, and a hot pitiless sun.
		Consequently, the battle tactics which they were ordered to follow by their commanders were more strict and regimented than those which would normally have been issued to men of the Regular Army.
		The accepted reasons for this are the catastrophe suffered by the Germans at Verdun, and his mis-reading of the situation during the opening stages of the Battle of the Somme.
	users.tibus.com /the-great-war/sommewww.htm (5300 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Special Report \| 1998 \| 10/98 \| World War I \| The Somme: Hell on earth
		The Somme was originally intended as a heavy attack from the south by the French, with British making a diversionary attack to the north.
		But the battle of Verdun had used up so many French divisions that when the attack was launched it was the British who undertook the main assault.
		The battle finally ended on 18 November with an area approximately 25 miles long by six miles wide won by the allies.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/203289.stm (441 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| First World War \| Battles
		The Somme offensive became a predominantly British operation, in the hands of the commander-in-chief of the British army in France,
		As mud and rain began to make conditions impossible, the Battle of the Somme was finally brought to a halt on 18 November.
		The unprecedented carnage of the Battle of the Somme marked a turning point in public perceptions of the war in Britain.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/battles/somme.htm (652 words)

	Day Of Defeat Forums - Battle of the Somme, Battle of El Alamein
		Except for its effect of diverting German troops from the Battle of Verdun, the offensive was a miserable disaster.
		Although Haig was severely criticized for the costly battle, his willingness to commit massive amounts of men and resources to the stalemate along the Western Front did eventually contribute to the collapse of an exhausted Germany in 1918.
		Worth bearing in mind that while the Somme was a bloodbath, it achieved its military and political aims, and taught the British Army many valuable lessons that led it to fight many very successful battles in 1917, and became the most effective fighting force of the war by 1918.
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	Battles of the Somme
		The Battle of the Somme was the largest all out offensive planned by the British against the German Army up to this point in First World War.
		Among the units decimated during the first day of the battle was the 36th Ulster Division, the 1st Newfoundland Regiment, which had actually made it to the German wire tangles, the 10th Battalion West Yorkshires, which got into the German trenchline and was surrouned and oblitereated, and the 1st Essex Regt.
		The battle was considered over by November 28 and by this point had claimed 420,000 casualites for the British, 195,000 for the French, and 650,000 for the Germans trying to stop them.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/2354/somme.html (708 words)

	BBC - History - Battle of the Somme: 1 July - 13 November 1916 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Battle of the Somme: 1 July - 13 November 1916
		Intended to be a decisive breakthrough, the Battle of the Somme instead became a byword for futile and indiscriminate slaughter, with General Haig's tactics remaining controversial even today.
		The British planned to attack on a 24km (15 mile) front between Serre, north of the Ancre, and Curlu, north of the Somme.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/wwone/battle_somme.shtml (544 words)

	Newfoundland Regiment: The Somme, 1916 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Somme offensive in the summer of 1916 had its origins in Anglo-French plans to bring the war to a rapid close.
		In consequence, the Somme offensive became a largely British effort, designed to relieve beleaguered French troops at Verdun, and to cause a decisive breakthrough in the German lines.
		The Battle of the Somme was the great turning point in the war.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /great_war/articles/somme.html (1804 words)

	Battle of the Somme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(11) George Coppard was a machine-gunner at the Battle of the Somme.
		One of the most important lessons drawn from the Battle of the Somme is that, under heavy, methodical artillery fire, the front line should be only thinly held, but by reliable men and a few machine guns, even when there is always a possibility of a hostile attack.
		There are some who from their manner of reasoning would appear to believe that no battle is worth fighting unless it produces an immediately decisive result which is as foolish as it would be to argue that in a prize fight no blow is worth delivering save the one that knocks the opponent out.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWsomme.htm (5177 words)

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		Haig was unperturbed by the losses on the Somme, despite Churchill’s criticism, and even though he lost the support of Lloyd George.
		It can be argued that, although not defeated at the Battle of the Somme, the Germans from that moment on knew they could not win the war.
		The tale of these battles… is the story of the million who would rather die than call themselves cowards – even to themselves – and also of the two or three individuals who would rather the million perish than they as leaders should admit – even to themselves – that they were blunderers.
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	A Death at the Battle of the Somme, 1916 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A Death at the Battle of the Somme, 1916
		The Battle of the Somme was one of the costliest of the First World War.
		The objective of the Somme offensive was to relieve the pressure on Verdun and to push the British line forward.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /somme.htm (876 words)

	Battle of the Somme: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Battle of Somme continues to influence the British imagination and will always remain of great interest to to the military historian.
		Ranging from the famous battle sites, such as High and Mametz Woods, to obscure villages on the outlying flanks, it draws upon the testimony of those who took part and also includes a chronology and extensive bibliography.
		This is a thoroughly researched account of the battles of the Somme, 1916.
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	Battle of the Somme; World War I
		Learn about the Battle of the Somme, in which there were over a million casualties, making it the worst battle in the First World War.
		The Battle of the Somme is a famous conflict of the First World War, in which the British Expeditionary Force and the French army attempted to take the strong defensive position held by the Germans in the Somme valley.
		It could be argued that the battle was successful from a British point of view, because one of their objectives was to inflict heavy losses on the German army.
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	CNN.com - Memorial to mark Somme battle - June 30, 2001
		The memorial to the missing of the World War I battle was built and is maintained by the UK's Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
		It serves as an Anglo-French battle memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive, whose opening day cost some 60,000 casualties.
		With a few exceptions, the attack was a failure, and the offensive developed into a series of battles which ended with the onset of winter and exhaustion of the troops.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/06/30/france.somme (349 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Special: Tragedy on the Somme
		The Somme - and Verdun - were the two greatest military follies of the 20th Century.
		In both battles, the flower of German, British and French society were cut down, robbing these nations of their future.
		The Somme battlefield, with its grim constellation of military cemeteries, stand as silent warnings of the dangers of blind nationalism and military incompetence.
	www.worldwar1.com /sfsomme.htm (974 words)

	Somme, First Battle of the -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		One of the two major battles of the American Civil War was fought at the crossroads town of Gettysburg, Pa., from July 1 to 3, 1863.
		The first major battle of the American Revolution was fought at Bunker Hill in Massachusetts on June 17, 1775.
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	The Battle of the Somme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the bombardment screamed over head in the run-up to the first of July huge models were built behind the British lines, exact scaled layouts of the German trenches were laid down meticulously with tape and the men of the new army practised their roles again and again.
		On June 25th the rate of fire of the British guns increased further still-the shrapnel shells they had been firing were changed to high explosive as it was the belief that the surface nature of shrapnel would be wasted when the topography of the German trenches would have ceased to exist.
		In some places the British had gained their objectives, but so isolated were they and without supplies of ammunition that they held sections of the German line for only a short time before they were either killed or retired.
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