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Battle of the Somme

noun

Battle of World War II (1944). Synonyms: Somme, Somme River.

Battle in World War I (1916). Synonyms: Somme, Somme River.

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... before. An abiding faith in the Allies was the foundation stone of its complacency. The great six-months battle of the Somme, with its million casualties, was resulting favorably. On the east the Russians had made some gains. There were wagers that the Germans would be ...

— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... November, 1916, the Canadian corps of four divisions, which had been welded by General Byng and General Currie into an exceedingly efficient fighting machine, took its part in the battle of the Somme—a battle in which the British army assumed the heaviest share of the fighting and casualties, and shifted the greatest burden of the struggle from the shoulders of the French to their own. The British army had grown vastly in power and efficiency and in growing had taken over ...

— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish

Words linked to "Battle of the Somme" : pitched battle, France, War to End War, World War 1, World War II, First World War, Great War, World War 2, French Republic, Second World War, World War I, Somme River