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The British soldiers went over the top only to be mowed Dow by German machine gun fire.This is because Haig had not properly planned his stragedy and not stopped to think that the Germans were heavily fortified and the bombardment only delayed the battle.
The British and the French vs. The Germans
The Battle of Verdun, the Somme, and Ypres were all World War I battles with the French fighting the Germans.
The British and the French vs. The Germans
It begun when the Germans invaded the French people
Russia's siege that ended the war in Europe
Germans lost 465,000 Allies lost 625,000
Russia was never in the Battle of the Somme. The Somme was on the western front, and the battle involved the British and some French against the Germans. The Russians were fighting hundreds of miles away, on the other side of Germany on the eastern front. The Battle of the Somme was in 1916. Russia did not pull out of the war until 1917.
The Somme bombardment was brutal and costly but highly ineffective.
Because it was in a very important location to the French and British and the Germans.
The Battle of Verdun, the Somme, and Ypres were all World War I battles with the French fighting the Germans.
it could have been avoided because if the battle of Verdun had not of started there would not of been the battle of somme. the somme was ment to be a distraction for the Germans to help the french recover there wounded men. If the leaders were beter not as mutch men would of died