map british military WW 1 Cologne and east 1918 map chart
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map british military WW 1 Cologne and east 1918 map chart This listing is for the ALWAYS WANTED MAPS AND CHARTS 1850 TO 1950 GOOD PRICES PAID Trench warfare begins (1914–1915) Sir Winston Churchill with the Royal Scots Fusiliers , 1916 Military tactics before World War I had failed to keep pace with advances in technology. These advances allowed for impressive defence systems, which out-of-date military tactics could not break through for most of the war. Barbed wire was a significant hindrance to massed infantry advances. Artillery , vastly more lethal than in the 1870s, coupled with machine guns , made crossing open ground extremely difficult. [38 ] The Germans were the first to use lethal poison gas on a large scale; it soon became used by both sides, though it never proved decisive in winning a battle. Its effects were brutal, causing slow and painful death, and poison gas became one of the most-feared and best-remembered horrors of the war. [39 ] Commanders on both sides failed to develop tactics for breaching entrenched positions without heavy casualties. In time, however, technology began to produce new offensive weapons, such as the tank .[ 40 ] After the First Battle of the Marne (5–12 September 1914), both Entente and German forces began a series of outflanking manoeuvres, in the so-called " Race to the Sea ". Britain
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