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20 hours ago · The ‘Lost Battalion’. The most telling example of such reporting emerged when a force of 700 soldiers from the AEF’s 77th Division was surrounded in the Forest of Argonne in north-eastern ...
2 days ago · During the Meuse–Argonne offensive, a battalion of the 77th Infantry Division was cut off and in desperate need of relief. On Oct. 6, 1918, Bleckley and his pilot had just returned through withering fire following an attempt to locate the “Lost Battalion,” as it became known.
1 day ago · The 'Lost Battalion' The most telling example of such reporting emerged when a force of 700 soldiers from the AEF’s 77th Division was surrounded in the Forest of Argonne in north-eastern France by a larger German force. It was a disaster, but journalists immediately gave the battle a glamorous label: “the story of the Lost Battalion”.
1 day ago · The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; ‹See Tfd› German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire.
- German victory
- Bulge driven into the Noyon salient
2 days ago · World War I, an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions.
- World War I began after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.
- The war pitted the Central Powers (mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) against the Allies (mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Ja...
- The Allies won World War I after four years of combat and the deaths of some 8.5 million soldiers as a result of battle wounds or disease.
- Some 8,500,000 soldiers died as a result of wounds or disease during World War I. Perhaps as many as 13,000,000 civilians also died. This immensely...
- Four imperial dynasties—the Habsburgs of Austria-Hungary, the Hohenzollerns of Germany, the sultanate of the Ottoman Empire, and the Romanovs of Ru...
4 days ago · Revealing the long-lost secrets of the real First World War – more than 3,000 years ago. How archaeologists are investigating a major European battle fought over 32 centuries ago.
2 days ago · The Third Battle of Ypres (‹See Tfd› German: Dritte Flandernschlacht; French: Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Dutch: Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele (/ ˈ p æ ʃ ən d eɪ l / PASH-ən-dayl), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.
