Ad
related to: battle of loos 1915 history channel schedule canada- Books in French
Shop best sellers, new releases and
deals on French books
- Literature & Fiction
Hand-picked reads from the Amazon
Books Editors
- Kindle eBooks
Take your stories wherever you go
on our family of Kindle e-readers.
- Amazon Charts
The top 20 Most Sold & Most Read
Books of the week.
- Books in French
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The battle was the British part of the Third Battle of Artois, a Franco-British offensive (known to the Germans as the Herbstschlacht (Autumn Battle). Field Marshal Sir John French and Douglas Haig (GOC First Army), regarded the ground south of La Bassée Canal, which was overlooked by German-held slag heaps and colliery towers, as unsuitable for an attack, particularly given the discovery in ...
Battle 360° Battle of Britain; Battle of Hood and Bismarck; The Battle of Jutland; Battlefield Britain; Battlefield Detectives; Battleships; Beast Legends; Betrayal; Beyond the Da Vinci Code; Big Timber; Blowdown; Bomb Hunters; The Bomber's Dream; The Bombing War; Brad Meltzer's Decoded; Breathing Fire: Battle of the Somme; Britain AD: King ...
The Hohenzollern Redoubt was a German defensive position north of Loos-en-Gohelle (Loos), a mining town north-west of Lens in France. The Redoubt was fought over by the British and German armies from the Battle of Loos (25 September – 8 October 1915) to the beginning of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Loos (25 September – 8 October 1915), the 9th (Scottish) Division captured the strongpoint and then lost it to a German counter-attack. The British attack on 13 October failed and resulted in 3,643 casualties, mostly in the first few minutes.
Battle of Kitcheners' Wood; 22–23 April 1915 Battle of St. Julien 24 April 4 May 1915 Battle of Frezenberg 8–13 May 1915 Battle of Bellewaerde Ridge 24–25 May 1915 Second Battle of Artois: Battle of Aubers Ridge: 9 May 1915 Battle of Festubert: 15–27 May 1915 Second Action at Givenchy 15–16 May 1915 Third Battle of Artois: Battle of Loos
James Edmonds, the British official historian, recorded 61,713 British and c. 26,000 German casualties at the Battle of Loos. [ 8 ] [ a ] Elizabeth Greenhalgh wrote that of the 48,230 French casualties, 18,657 men had been killed or listed as missing, against the capture of 2,000 prisoners, 35 machine-guns, many trench mortars and other items ...
Map of the Hohenzollern Redoubt area, September 1915. A number of pit-heads known as Fosses and auxiliary shafts called Puits had been built around Loos-en-Gohelle in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, when the area was developed by the mining industry; Fosse 8 de Béthune was close to the north end of a spoil-heap (Crassier) known as "The Dump".
Battle of Loos. In the Battle of Loos (25 September–8 October 1915) the British First Army attacked between Grenay and Givenchy in support of the French Tenth Army attack further south against Vimy (the Third Battle of Artois). 1st Division was at Le Rutoire, in the middle of the line, and was tasked with the sector running from Northern Sap ...
Ad
related to: battle of loos 1915 history channel schedule canada