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Battle of the Somme
a major and extremely bloody battle fought during World War I between the British and French forces against the German army, taking place primarily along the Somme River in northern France from July 1st to November 18th, 1916 -
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Battle of Tannenberg
a major battle fought during the early stages of World War I, where German forces under the command of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff decisively defeated the Russian Second Army, resulting in a devastating loss for Russia and the near annihilation of their invading force in East Prussia -
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First Battle of the Marne
a pivotal battle fought during World War I between the French and British armies against the German forces, taking place from September 5th to 12th, 1914, along the Marne River in France -
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Second Battle of Ypres
marked the first large-scale use of poison gas in warfare, with the Germans releasing chlorine gas against Allied troops, primarily Canadian, stationed in the Ypres Salient in Belgium -
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Battle of Gallipoli
a major Allied military campaign against the Ottoman Empire, where Australian and New Zealand troops (known as ANZACs) landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in modern-day Turkey on April 25, 1915, aiming to capture the strategically important Dardanelles Strait -
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Battle of Verdun
one of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War I, fought primarily near the French city of Verdun, where the German army launched a major offensive against the French, resulting in a devastating stalemate with enormous casualties on both sides, considered a major turning point in the war due to the sheer scale of death and destruction involved -
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Battle of Jutland
the largest naval battle of World War I, fought between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet from May 31 to June 1, 1916, off the coast of Jutland, Denmark -
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Brusilov Offensive
a major Russian military campaign during World War I, launched in June 1916 under the command of General Aleksei Brusilov, which saw a large-scale attack against the Austro-Hungarian forces on the Eastern Front -
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Battle of Passchendaele
a major World War I engagement fought between July and November 1917 in the Ypres salient of Belgium, where Allied forces, primarily British, attempted to capture the strategically important high ground around the village of Passchendaele against German troops -
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Battle of Caporetto
a devastating defeat for the Italian army during World War I, where a combined Austro-German force launched a surprise attack on the Italian front along the Isonzo River, causing a massive retreat and demoralizing the Italian troops, resulting in one of the most significant collapses of the war on the Italian front -
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Battle of Cambrai
most famous for being the first large-scale use of tanks in warfare, where the British deployed a significant number of tanks in a coordinated attack against German lines, marking a significant turning point in combined arms tactics on the Western Front -
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Spring Offensive
a series of major attacks launched by the German army on the Western Front during World War I, beginning in late March 1918, aiming to decisively defeat the Allies before the full force of the American military could arrive -
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Battle of Belleau Wood
a significant World War I engagement fought in June 1918, where U.S. Marines successfully halted a major German offensive near the Marne River in France, preventing them from reaching Paris