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    In 1917, during the First World War, the armies on the Western Front continued to change their fighting methods, due to the consequences of increased...
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    Battle of Passchendaele, in 1917, with 487,000 casualties. To break the deadlock of the trench warfare on the Western Front, both sides tried new military...
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    bombardment tactics were disseminated throughout the German Army. Hutier and Bruchmüller were transferred together to the Western Front to take part...
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    (Scottish) Division, advocated the use of new artillery-infantry tactics on his sector of the front. During preparations, J. F. C. Fuller, a staff officer with...
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    which formed part of the Yıldırım Army Group using the latest Western Front infiltration tactics and close combat gear with concentrated fire of artillery...
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  • trench warfare. On the Western Front in 1915, the Germans formed a specialized unit called the Rohr Battalion to develop assault tactics. During the Brusilov...
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    Western Front during World War I. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front...
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    War, he commanded the army that took Riga in 1917. The following year he was transferred to the Western Front to participate in Operation Michael that year...
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    place between 9 February and 20 March 1917, after months of preparation. The German retreat shortened the Western front by 25 mi (40 km). The withdrawal to...
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    Schlacht um Riga), took place in early September 1917 and was last major campaign on the Eastern Front of World War I before the Russian Provisional Government...
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    against the German Empire. The battle took place on the Western Front, from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian...
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    Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-32473-5. Griffith, Paddy (1996). Battle Tactics of the Western Front: British Army's Art of Attack, 1916–18. Yale. ISBN 0-300-06663-5...
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    ISBN 9780313278846, retrieved 20 August 2015 Griffith, Paddy (1996), Battle Tactics of the Western Front – The British Army's Art of Attack 1916–18, Yale University Press...
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  • On 6 April 1917, aerial reconnaissance has observed that the Imperial German Army, which has pulled back from a sector of the Western Front in northern...
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    Hindenburg Line (category 1917 in France)
    was a German defensive position built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front in France during the First World War. The line ran from Arras...
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    Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918, Viking Canada 2008 Paddy Griffith, Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack...
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  • Military tactics encompasses the art of organizing and employing fighting forces on or near the battlefield. They involve the application of four battlefield...
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    term contrasts with the Western Front, which was being fought in Belgium and France. Unlike the static warfare on the Western Front, the fighting on the...
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    1915 and April 1917 an estimated 150 French, British and German charges were fired in this 4.3 mi (7 km) sector of the Western Front. In May 1916, Operation...
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  • warfare on the Western Front is the Battle of Verdun, which took place throughout most of 1916. Erich von Falkenhayn later claimed that his tactics at Verdun...
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    Battle of Caporetto (category 1917 in Italy)
    Italian front of World War I. The battle was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Central Powers and took place from 24 October to 19 November 1917, near...
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    Russia's defeat in the east and launched a new wave of offensives on the Western Front resulting in advances not seen since the war's outbreak. However, by...
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    of July 1917 failed. Also arrived German troops from Romanian front after the Battle of Mărășești. The Germans introduced infiltration tactics to the Austro-Hungarian...
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    unit of General Baratov's Corps operating in Persia. In October 1917, he went from the front to Kiev, where he remained after the city was occupied by the...
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  • centers. The new tactics would indeed restore mobility to the Western front, but the German army was too optimistic. During the winter of 1917-18 it was "quiet"...
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    warfare on the Western Front of World War I. The unit pioneered what would later be referred to as Stoßtrupptaktik (English: "stormtrooper tactics"), a body...
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    Brusilov offensive (category Battles of the Eastern Front (World War I))
    potential of the tactics that Brusilov had devised. Similar tactics were proposed separately by French, Germans and British on the Western Front and employed...
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  • Romania out of the war in 1917. On the other fronts, it suffered severe casualties, culminating in the collapse of the Italian front, which led the Austrians...
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    of July 1917 failed. Also arrived German troops from Romanian front after the Battle of Mărășești. The Germans introduced infiltration tactics to the Austro-Hungarian...
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  • suffered heavy losses in 1917, he insisted on retaining control of American troops and refused to commit them to the front line until able to operate...
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