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Somme

By tgrisham

  • The Battle Begins

    The Battle Begins
    On the first day of the battle alone the British lost 19,240 men while the French only lost around 2,000 men.

  • Fricourt is surrendered by the Germans

    Fricourt is surrendered by the Germans
    Rawlinsons' estimate of casualties was 30,000

  • La Boisselle was captured

    La Boisselle was captured
    La Boisselle was captured and part of Ovillers. Thomas George Turrall won VC at la Boisselle

  • Night assault on Bazentin Ridge

    Night assault on Bazentin Ridge
    At 3.20am the British guns pounded the enemy lines with five times the intensity of the first day of the Somme. As the sun rose, 22,000 British troops attacked and the Germans were taken by surprise.

  • Attack on Fromelles to the north of the Somme battlefield

    Attack on Fromelles to the north of the Somme battlefield
    Germans make strong counter-attacks on Longueval and Delville Wood. Faulds gains the VC at the last named

  • The Anzacs capture Pozières

    The Anzacs capture Pozières
    After a short intense artillery bombardment, they stormed the village of Pozières which stood high on the crest of Thiepval Ridge.

  • German Air Superiority

    German Air Superiority
    The Germans gained air superiority with the Fokker Dll, the Halberstadt, and the Albatros Dl and Dll. However this didn't help them very much because French machine guns stopped them from using air strikes.

  • German general resigns

    German general resigns
    The Germans had suffered nearly 250,000 casualties. Morale was low and many German leaders believed the battle was lost. https://books.google.com/books?id=V91mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=German+general+resigns+on+august+29th&source=bl&ots=fPpa9W_HuO&sig=Scc74gBsro_kPUgRHiyUViPsPDk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGxpWu8_XWAhWOyIMKHTDWBH0Q6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q&f=false

  • The First American Casualty of WW1

    The First American Casualty of WW1
    On August 31, 1916, Harry Butters, a young U.S. citizen serving in the British forces was killed becoming the first American citizen to die in WW1.

  • The Germans fight back on land and in the air

    The Germans fight back on land and in the air
    The Allies had dominated the skies, but in September the Germans deployed new planes and new tactics.

  • The Battle Ends

    The Battle Ends
    Over a 1.5 million men died in all. By the end of it all the British lost around 420,000 men and the French around 200,000 men. The number of German casualties is controversial but it was upwards of 400,000 men.
    http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/somme.htm