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- General Sir Douglass Haig
- He received lots of criticism , the criticism was based on the appalling casualty figures suffered by the British and the French .

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- It stated July 1st , 1916
- Lasted until November 1916

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- near the Somme River in France

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- Because of the people who lead the British campaign

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- The Somme campaign in 1916 was the first great offensive of World War I for the British, and it produced a more critical British attitude toward the war.

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- Was one of the largest from the first world war

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- started with week long artillery bombardment of the german lines

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- first day of the Somme offensive, July 1, 1916, resulted in 57,470 British casualties, greater than the total combined British casualties in the Crimean, Boer, and Korean wars.

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- Almost 88,000 men died for every mile they advanced

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- By the time the offensive ended in November, the British had suffered around 420,000 casualties, and the French about 200,000. German casualty numbers are controversial, but may be about 465,000.

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- End near November 1916

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THeir was no task 4 on the packet