Verdun, the Somme and Treach Warfare

1. the battle of the Somme: 141 days of a horror

1.1. a battle of attrition

1.2. The Battle of the Somme, fought in northern France, was one of the bloodiest of World War One.

1.3. For five months the British and French armies fought the Germans in a brutal battle of attrition on a 15-mile front.

2. 1 July 1916

2.1. The first and bloodiest day

2.1.1. British Field Gun white

2.1.2. The British used a field gun which fired an 18.5lb shell.

2.1.3. The Allies bombarded German trenches for seven days and then sent 100,000 men over the top to attack the German lines.

3. 20 august 1916

3.1. By August, the Germans had suffered nearly 250,000 casualties. Morale was low and many German leaders believed the battle was lost.

3.2. The Germans were losing ground at the Somme and at Verdun the French were attacking in earnest.

3.3. The Allied naval blockades of the North Sea and the Adriatic Sea, caused food shortages in Germany. Bread, meat, sugar, eggs and milk were rationed.

4. what cause the Verdun to be the longest battle of WW1

4.1. A new kind of warfare

4.2. Verdun was one of the most savagely fought battles of World War One.

4.3. The Germans fired two million shells in the opening eight-hour bombardment, and tens of millions were fired over the course of the conflict.

5. the scared way

5.1. The French and German armies needed effective supply routes to ensure they could get men and munitions to the front line. For the French, that meant relying on a single road.