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Essay Archive - Trench Warfare on the Western Front
Trench Warfare on the Western Front
By the end of 1914, the commencing year of W.W.I, it was apparent
that the old fashioned warfare of dashing cavalry charges and rapid
movements of troops was over. Soldiers were forced to shelter themselves
in trenches from enemy rifle and machine-gun fire and the explosions of
artillery shells. The first use of trench warfare began in the Battle of
the Marne and from then on, armies remained in the trenches for the next
four years. As quoted by military historian J.F.C.Fuller, “success (in the
war) depended on overcoming the defensive ....
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