The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916 ... whilst sustaining less than half the number of casualties that it had on the first day of the battle. The soldiers were part of a larger ...

The sign tells you that this was the limit of the allied advance in the infamous Somme offensive of 1916 ... Their date with Nemesis came on the first day of the battle. Their initial assignment ...

The result was months of fighting, more than a million casualties and in excess of 300,000 men losing their lives. Why the Battle of the Somme was so significant How the First World War began The ...

The detonation of the Hawthorn Ridge, near the village of Beaumont Hamel in France, signalled the start of the Battle of the Somme ... casualties – including 19,000 killed – on the first day ...

The battle saw more than one million men killed and wounded on all sides. Somme, one of World War ... with the British suffering almost 60,000 casualties on the first day alone.

Antietam from Worldcrunch on Vimeo. The Battle of Antietam was a significant engagement fought during the American Civil War ...

Half of the thousand men who went into battle that morning were dead or wounded by the day's end. Professor Kelly had all of our attention as he relayed these details. I was standing in the back ...

Generals George McClellan vs. Robert E. Lee, the Union’s Army of the Potomac vs. the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, ...

I’d chosen to spend the first day partying in the row of houses behind Payne Whitney Gym. Like the rest of the underclassmen flocking to the dimly-lit backyard of 13 Lake Place, I’d come unprepared.

British soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga in the Revolutionary War, but the Americans would go on to win the second ...

The vedettes of both fronts are in close proximity, and as the enemy seem to be very hostile just at this time, there is more or less firing every day ... list of casualties in the First division ...

held by four inexperienced and battle-worn American divisions stationed there for rest and seasoning. After a day of hard fighting, the Germans broke through the American front, surrounding most ...