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Battle of Tannenburg
Allied with France and Britain, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander, agreed to help relieve the French, under attack from Germany, with an offensive in East Prussia. This required mobility and nimbleness; unfortunately the Russians had neither.
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First Battle of the Marne
The First Battle of the Marne was a great victory for France. It pushed the Germans back and saved Paris from being captured. However, Germany still retained a large part of northeastern France. The First Battle of the Marne was a great strategic victory, as it enabled the French to continue the war. However, the Germans succeeded in capturing a large part of the industrial north east of France, a serious blow. 250,000 French casualties, 12,733 British casualties and 298,000 German casualties. -
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Second Battle of Ypres
The battle marked the Germans' first use of poison gas as a weapon. Although the gas attack opened a wide hole in the Allied line, the Germans failed to exploit that advantage.
Allies won
By the end of the battle, the Allies remained in possession of Ypres but the salient was constricted and valuable high ground had been lost. Casualties among British Empire forces numbered in excess of 55,000. The Ypres salient saw heavy casualties from German artillery and attacks for the next two years. -
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Battle of Gallipoli
Fought during the First World War (1914-18) from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, Gallipoli was the first major amphibious operation in modern warfare.
Ottoman Empire won. Allies suffered over 220,000 casualties,out of a force of nearly 500,000. From their point of view, the campaign was a disaster. The Turks suffered almost as many casualties, but their victory at Gallipoli rejuvenated the Ottoman war effort.The warships were unable to force a way through the straits known as the Dardanelles. -
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Battle of Verdun
Over 10 months in 1916, the two armies at Verdun suffered over 700,000 casualties, including some 300,000 killed. The pastoral landscape surrounding the city had been permanently transformed, and nine villages—Beaumont, Bezonvaux, Cumières, Douaumont, Fleury, Haumont, Louvemont, Ornes, and Vaux—were entirely destroyed.
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Battle of Jutland
The strategic value of the Battle of Jutland became apparent: the Royal Navy achieved its aim of containing the German naval threat, and deterred German warships from all but minor actions in the North Sea. The German dead amounted to 2,551, but British losses were 6,097.
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Brusilov Offensive
Brusilov operation achieved its original goal of forcing Germany to halt its attack on Verdun and transfer considerable forces to the East. Afterward, the Austro-Hungarian Army increasingly had to rely on the support of the German Army for its military successes.
Russian, 500,000–1,000,000 dead, wounded, or captured; Central Powers, some 1.5 million casualties
He hoped to take pressure off France and Britain and hopefully knock Austria out of the war
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Battle of the Somme
The Allied victory at the Somme. A more professional and effective army emerged from the battle. And the tactics developed there, including the use of tanks and creeping barrages, laid some of the foundations of the Allies' successes in 1918. The Somme also succeeded in relieving the pressure on the French at Verdun. The British Empire had suffered 420,000 casualties and the French 200,000 in the process. German losses were at least 450,000 killed and wounded. -
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Battle of Passchendaele
The British lost an estimated 275,000 casualties at Passchendaele to the German's 220,000, making it one of the war's most costly battles of attrition. Canada won. General Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commander in Chief in France, had been convinced to launch his forces at the German submarine bases along the Belgian coast in an attempt to reduce the massive shipping losses then being suffered by the Royal Navy. After 100 days there was a movement of the frontline of merely eight kilometers -
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Battle of Caporetto
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Battle of Cambrai
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Spring Offensive
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Second Battle of the Marne
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Battle of Belleau Wood
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Hundred Days Offensive