Both sides reached a stalemate which changed the conflict into a static war. Faced with trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, and using artillery, both sides would send whole waves of infantry to break the stalemate, with disastrous results in human life. Though the British were the first to use tanks, they were not used effectively.
General Douglas Haig was in charge of the British force on the Somme in World War I.
General Douglas Haig was the British ruler during the battle of Somme, i think.
420,000 british men were killed at the battle of the somme
The French and the British were involed in the Battle of Somme.
Somme
The British and the French vs. The Germans
They did but at a cost for the British Army.
Earl Douglas Haig
60,000 soldiers
In September 1916 at the Battle of the Somme.
The British and the French vs. The Germans
20,000 british an dim not sure about the rest