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    The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First...
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    The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of...
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    The Battle of the Somme (US title, Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme), is a 1916 British documentary and propaganda war film, shot by two...
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    This is the order of battle for the Battle of the Somme. The Battle of the Somme was an offensive fought on the Western Front during World War I from...
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  • The Battle of the Somme most commonly refers to the Anglo-French offensive in 1916 during World War I. The campaign was later divided into a series of...
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    the particularly significant Battle of the Somme in 1916. As a result of this and other battles fought in the area, the department is home to many military...
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    The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, was the beginning of the Battle of Albert (1–13 July), the name given by the British to the first two weeks of...
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    position commanded a vast field of fire. Similar positions had resisted capture for two months in the Battle of the Somme. The Australians had used surprise...
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    the high ground of the former Arrouaise Forest [fr] at Fonsomme near Saint-Quentin, to the Bay of the Somme, in the English Channel. It lies in the geological...
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    fought over was the wilderness left by the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The action was therefore officially named by the British Battles Nomenclature Committee...
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    5 mi (4 km) of the Verdun citadel but in July the offensive was limited to provide troops, artillery and ammunition for the Battle of the Somme, leading...
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  • (1916), the opening phase of the Battle of the Somme Battle of Albert (1918), the opening phase of the Second Battle of the Somme This disambiguation page...
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    made. Among the most costly of these offensives were the Battle of Verdun, in 1916, with a combined 700,000 casualties, the Battle of the Somme, also in...
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    during the First World War. The line ran from Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne. In 1916, the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme left...
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    The Battle of Pozières (23 July – 3 September 1916) took place in northern France around the village of Pozières, during the Battle of the Somme. The...
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    The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of...
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  • in the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, and on 14 July the Battle of Delville Wood. Of the 3,153 men in the brigade only 750 were left when the brigade...
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  • 36th (Ulster) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    the Schwaben Redoubt. The first day of the Somme was the anniversary (in the Julian calendar) of the Battle of the Boyne, a fact remarked on by the leaders...
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  • Somme or The Somme may refer to: Somme (department), a department of France Somme, Queensland, Australia Canal de la Somme, a canal in France Somme (river)...
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    J. R. R. Tolkien (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    as part of a Battle of the Somme exhibition in the Imperial War Museum, London. (See "Second Lieutenant J R R Tolkien". Battle of the Somme. Imperial...
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    Canadian-born commander. The highpoints of Canadian military achievement during the Great War came during the Somme, Vimy, and Passchendaele battles and what later...
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  • descriptions of battle, noting that he served in the Battle of the Somme. The battle formed a "spectacular" centrepiece in Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings:...
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    distract the Allies from their preparations for the offensive at Verdun and later attempts to divert Allied resources from the Battle of the Somme. Other...
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    2010, p. 114. Jones 2010, p. 115. Battle of the Somme – 1916, BBC History, accessed 7 July 2015. Banning 2011. "Battle of Messines". diggerhistory.info....
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    Ypres (1914), the Battle of the Somme (1916), the Battle of Arras (1917), and the Battle of Passchendaele (1917). During the Battle of Fromelles on 19–20...
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    On the morning of 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme during World War I, underground explosive charges planted by British tunnelling...
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    Delville Wood    The Battle of Delville Wood (15 July – 3 September 1916) was a series of engagements in the 1916 Battle of the Somme in the First World War...
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    Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (category Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India)
    British Army officer in the First World War who commanded the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force at the battles of the Somme (1916) and Amiens (1918)...
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    was the code name of a German military operation in France during the First World War. Two salients had been formed during the Battle of the Somme in 1916...
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  • Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2024-02-01. Tucker 2005, p. 1052. Tucker 2005, p. 299. Duffy, Michael (2009-08-22). "The Battle of Bolimov...
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