https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01 Locations of War en-us 2023-10-13 15:57:51 UTC 2023-10-13 16:36:08 UTC hello@padlet.com jcastillo1718 https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745440325 Battle of Mons: August 23, 1914 The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies engaged Germany on the French frontiers. Although the British fought well and inflicted disproportionate casualties on the numerically superior Germans, they were eventually forced to withdraw due to both the greater strength of the Germans and the sudden withdrawal of the French Fifth Army, which exposed the British right flank.The BEF numbered about 80,000 soldiers in two entirely professional corps made up of volunteer soldiers with many years of service and reservists. The BEF was probably the best trained and most experienced of the European armies of 1914. British training emphasized rapid-fire marksmanship and the average British soldier was capable of hitting a man-sized target fifteen times a minute at a distance of 300 yards (270 m) with his Lee-Enfield rifle. This ability to generate a high volume of accurate rifle fire played an important role in the BEF's battles of 1914.]]> 2023-10-13 16:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745440325 jcastillo1718 https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745452379 The Marne France was a World War I battle fought on September 5-12, 1914.[4] The German army invaded France with a plan to win the war in 40 days by occupying Paris and destroying the French and British (Allied/Entente) armies. The Germans had initial successes in August. They won the battles of Mons and the Borders and invaded a large area of northern France and Belgium.With the setbacks suffered on the battlefield in August, Field Marshal John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), lost faith in his French allies and began planning a British withdrawal to the Channel port cities for an evacuation to Britain.On September 4, Joffre gave the order to launch a counteroffensive. The battle took place between Paris and Verdun, a distance of 230 km from west to east. The decision point and the most intense fighting took place in the western half of that area. On September 9, the success of the Franco-British counteroffensive left the 1st and 2nd German Armies at risk of being encircled, and they were ordered to withdraw towards the Aisne River.]]> 2023-10-13 16:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745452379 jcastillo1718 https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745457745 Battle of Dogger Bank: January 24, 1915 was a naval engagement during World War I that took place on January 24, 1915 near Dogger Bank in the North Sea, between squadrons of the British Grand Fleet and the Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet). The British had intercepted and decoded German wireless transmissions, so they knew in advance that a German raiding squadron was heading for the Dogger Bank, and the Grand Fleet ships sailed to intercept the raiders.The British disabled the Blücher, the lagging German ship, and the Germans knocked out the British flagship HMS Lion. Due to inadequate signaling, the remaining British ships stopped the pursuit to sink the Blücher; by the time the ship was sunk, the rest of the German squadron had escaped. The British lost no ships and suffered few casualties; the Germans lost the Blücher and most of its crew. After the British victory, both navies replaced officers who were considered to have shown poor judgment and introduced changes in equipment and procedures due to failures observed during the battle.]]> 2023-10-13 16:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745457745 jcastillo1718 https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745466801 Battle of Cambrai: September 27 to October 11, 1918 was a series of massive Allied offensives that brought World War I to an end. Beginning with the Battle of Amiens (August 8-12) on the Western Front, the Allies pushed back the Imperial German Army, undoing their advances of the German spring offensive.The Germans retreated to the Hindenburg Line, but the Allies broke the line with a series of victories, beginning with the Battle of the St. Quentin Canal on September 29. The offensive, along with a revolution that broke out in Germany, led to the Armistice of November 11, 1918, which ended the war with an Allied victory. The term "Hundred Days Offensive" refers not to a battle or strategy, but to the rapid series of Allied victories.The German spring offensive on the Western Front had begun on March 21, 1918 with Operation Michael and had been exhausted by July. The German army had advanced as far as the Marne River, but failed to achieve its goal of a war-deciding victory. When the German Operation Marne-Rheims ended in July, the supreme Allied commander, Ferdinand Foch, ordered a counteroffensive, which became known as the Second Battle of the Marne. The Germans, recognizing their untenable position, withdrew northward from the Marne. For this victory, Foch received the title of Marshal of France.]]> 2023-10-13 16:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745466801 jcastillo1718 https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745474878 Battle of Amiens: August 8-11, 1918 also known as the Third Battle of Picardy (French: 3ème Bataille de Picardie), was the initial phase of the Allied offensive that began on August 8, 1918, later known as the Hundred Days Offensive, which ultimately led to the end of World War I. The Allied forces advanced more than 11 kilometers (7 miles) on the first day, one of the largest advances of the war. Allied forces advanced more than 11 kilometers ( miles) on the first day, one of the greatest advances of the war, with General Henry Rawlinson's British Fourth Army (with 9 of its 19 divisions supplied by Lieutenant General John Monash's fast-moving Australian Corps and Lieutenant General Arthur Currie's Canadian Corps) and General Marie Eugène Debeney's French First Army playing a decisive role. On March 21, 1918, the German army launched Operation Michael, the first in a series of planned attacks to push the Allies back along the Western Front. Following the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with revolutionary-controlled Russia, the Germans were able to transfer hundreds of thousands of men to the Western Front, giving them a significant, if temporary, advantage in manpower and materiel. These offensives were intended to translate this advantage into victory. Operation Michael was intended to defeat the right wing of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), but lack of success around Arras ensured the ultimate failure of the offensive. A final effort was directed at the city of Amiens, a vital railway junction, but the advance was halted at Villers-Bretonneux by British and Australian troops on 4 April.]]> 2023-10-13 16:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jcastillo1718/tp4dnhvv7738ng01/wish/2745474878