https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose By: Alyssa Partner en-us 2019-03-14 17:02:37 UTC 2025-10-25 01:20:33 UTC hello@padlet.com alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441524 The countries that were involved in the Battle of the Somme were the French, British and the Germans.]]> 2019-03-14 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441524 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441726 The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest of World War One. For five months the British and French armies fought the Germans in a battle of attrition on a 15-mile front. ]]> 2019-03-14 17:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441726 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441819 The Battle started July 1st, 1916 and it lasted until November 1916]]> 2019-03-14 17:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441819 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441862 The Battle of the Somme was fought in northern France. ]]> 2019-03-14 17:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441862 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441895 The aims of the battle were to relieve the French Army fighting at Verdun and to weaken the German Army.]]> 2019-03-14 17:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441895 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441960  With fourteen infantry divisions,the British army attacked north of the Somme while the French attacked astride and south of the Somme with five divisions.]]> 2019-03-14 17:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341441960 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341463604 The war started July 1st, 1916. It was a weeklong artillery bombardment of the German lines. 1,738,000 shells were fired at the Germans.]]> 2019-03-14 17:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341463604 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341463882 Germans had deep dugouts for their men and all they had to do when the bombardment started was to move these men into the relative safety of the deep dugouts. ]]> 2019-03-14 17:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341463882 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341463915 They allied the troops climbed out of the trenches and moved over no mans land towards the German front lines.]]> 2019-03-14 17:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341463915 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341464119 The man to man combat that followed was bloody and horrific.]]> 2019-03-14 17:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341464119 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341464347 The British had lost 420,000, the French lost nearly 200,000 men and the Germans 500,000. The Allied forces had advanced along a thirty-mile strip that was seven miles deep at its maximum.]]> 2019-03-14 17:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/341464347 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/343000685 Describes the witness of the new weapons that are machine guns, and how it continuously took down man after man.]]> 2019-03-19 17:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/343000685 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/343005188 Describes how the men that were going to war were not expecting to see these new weapons. And when they were shot right on top of the trench on the wire they looked like they were praying.]]> 2019-03-19 17:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/343005188 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/343005505 Talks about the tactics of both armies in the war, and; how "if the opposing forces are approximately equal in numbers, in courage, in moral and in equipment, there is no way for avoiding payment of the price or of eliminating this phrase of the struggle".]]> 2019-03-19 17:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/343005505 alypartn430 https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/343005901 The article describes what the battle front was like while in action, and what was happening in the front lines.]]> 2019-03-19 17:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alypartn430/676jvq1ogose/wish/343005901