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Battle of the Somme
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A-Level History (Road to WW1) Mind Map on Battle of the Somme, created by gracermyers on 04/15/2014.
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Battle of the Somme
Deaths
Britain 420,000
60,000 in the first day
Worst fighting day in British history
France 200,000
Germany 500,000
events
Started July 1st 1916
Finished November 1916
Artillery bombardment for 7 days and nights
1,738,000 shells fired at Germany to destroy trenches and barbed wire
35 mile strip took 5 months
Failures
Bombardment didnt work
Dud shells
Wire became more tangled
Germans were well dug in
Waited 10 minutes from bombardment to start advance
This gave the Germans the time to advance
Soldiers executed for not obeying rules
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