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Battle of the Somme. By: Nick Jordan, Chesley Charleson, Cameron Bowie, Kaitlyn Legere. The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War . By late autumn there was more than 1.5 million casualties had been suffered by the forces involved.
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Battle of the Somme By: Nick Jordan, Chesley Charleson, Cameron Bowie, Kaitlyn Legere.
The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War . • By late autumn there was more than 1.5 million casualties had been suffered by the forces involved
The attack was launched upon a 30 kilometre front, from north of the Somme river between Arras and Albert, • The war ran from 1 July until 18 November, at which point it was called off.
British forces comprised by far the bulk of the offensive forces, • There was a loss of 58,000 British troops • It is implicated to have been one of the bloodiest military operations ever on recorded.
