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The Battle of Verdun started
It began when the Germans, commanded by Crown Prince Frederick William, launched a massive offensive against Verdun. -
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The German kaiser believed that the French would lose so many men that the battle would change the course of the war. -
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On June 1st, Germany launched a massive attack at Verdun. By June 23rd, they got within 2.5 miles from Verdun itself - but this attack faltered as the German army itself had given all that it had and it could give no more. -
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The German kaiser, Falkenhayn, believed that the French would lose so many men that the battle would change the course of the war. -
Start of the Battle of the Somme
the battle at the Somme started with a weeklong artillery bombardment of the German lines, A lot of British men are killed or seriously on the first day alone. Despite that all the people died, Field Marshall Douglas Haig orders that the battle must continue. -
Blasting
Explosion the first underground gallery on the battlefield of the Somme. 7:20 am , July 1, 1916 . -
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The battle of the Sommein 1916 was one of the longest and bloodiest battleof the first world war. -
Battle of the Somme ends
By the end of October 1916, the French had re-captured the two forts at Vaux and Douaumont but the surrounding land where the battle had been fought since February was a wasteland. The battle at Verdun continued to December - ironically after the Somme conflict was considered to have ended. -
The Battle of Verdun ended
It will be remembered the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements of World War I. Two million men were submitted. -
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When the battle ended, both sides had shown how it could be deadly modern warfare
