offensive to continue to the Passchendaele Ridge. In the span of 3 days two additional battles occurred Poelcappelle and the First Battle of Passchendaele. German forces within Passchendaele Ridge were reinforced with additional troops from the eastern front with the intent of strengthening the defense. The German forces boosted and additionally equipped with mustard gas successfully defended the Passchendaele Ridge. This defeat regardless of its outcome did little to sway Haig‚ who ordered three additional
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Douglas Haig was appointed commander of the army on tenth of December 1915 - he was fifty-four at the time and he had had a very successful military career. Haig decided to attack the Germans at the river Somme in 1916 to attract German soldiers from the town of Verdun where they were fighting the French and had almost broken through. But even though he was victorious there was a very high casualty figure. I will explore whether Haig deserves the title ‘Butcher of the Somme‚’ with reference to multiple
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The RUF was created by Foday Sankoh with financial assistance from Charles Taylor‚ the president of Liberia. Though at first they were popular with Sierra Leoneans‚ public opinion on them changed when they became violent with their takeover and management of the diamond mines. The rebel group—which recruited children—went on a violent rampage‚ attacking villages and killing or mutilating anyone who got in their way and others who did not. Thought the Sierra Leone Army attempted to fight back‚ the
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him‚ but because he loves what is behind him (Chesterson). War is always devastating‚ bringing only the worst out of all the evil in the world and The First of July written by Elizabeth Speller‚ published in 2013 takes place in one of the biggest war in history‚ World War One. Unlike many books‚ Speller takes a different approach of not just revolving around one character‚ but four to show the complete picture of the soldiers in the
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thousands‚ as many of our citizens felt obligated to help the motherland. By 1919 a total of six hundred thousand Canadian men and woman participated in the war effort as nurses‚ soldiers and chaplains‚ this number does not include the people on the home front who contributed to the war effort. 3 Canada’s first great mark on World War I was at the second battle of Ypres. The 1st Canadian division moved to reinforce the British and allied lines. In April of 1915‚ the Germans unleashed canisters of poison
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT In the book All Quiet on the Western Front the main character and narrator Paul describes the war as not fighting for his country but fighting for his own survival. This theme has been repeatedly outspoken in the book because Paul and the other characters have lost their sense of patriotism. Once the characters have left their previous feelings of patriotism‚ which is why they joined the war initially‚ they have no other choice but to fight in order
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Why did Germany lose the First World War in 1918? The First World War was a huge event which ended abruptly; going from huge German advances after March 1918 to Germany asking for peace later that year: they were forced from a hard hitting offensive to defeat for various reasons: One of the key reasons for Germany’s defeat is the internal problems suffered by Germany from late 1917. Morale in the ranks of the Germany army was diminished to a painfully low point: they were exhausted from the spring
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Machine Guns were very successful weapons that were used throughout WWI. They would be set up on front line trenches and were able to fire over 150 rounds a minute and was able to sweep the landscape whilst still firing. This added excellent and accurate fire power against the enemy. Machine Guns were responsible for the deaths of thousands of soldiers
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got the wire cut we were in the trenches of the enemy seeing that they had the same scenery as us. Our group found some maps and damaged some of their supplies‚ but there a German heard us and we had to start the far run for our lives back to the front line trenches. As we ran bullets were flying past us bombs were exploding all around us. I jumped in to our trench and then looked back to see the other 7 follow behind me‚ but 3 of them got shot 50 yards from me and one was hit with a bomb 100 yards
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amount of people hurt. He didn’t care because I he did he would have made different tactics. Haig also never visited the front line but instead presumed it would have been like old war. This is shown in the quote from Haig in 1916‚ ‘The machine gun is a much overrated weapon.’ Haig said this because he had never actually seen one in action‚ showing that he had never even gone to the front line to see what he men were doing and how they were dying but instead didn’t care. This proves that Haig did deserve
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