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Trench Warfare disscussion
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Posted 27 September 2005 - 08:46 PM
hi im new to the fourms here i would like to make a disscusion on ww1 trench warfare to include the following
.Cerian battles that took place and were
.Weapons and tatics
.Condtions
.Numbers of soldiers,dead,wounded and civilian casualtys
please reply on your thoughts
.Cerian battles that took place and were
.Weapons and tatics
.Condtions
.Numbers of soldiers,dead,wounded and civilian casualtys
please reply on your thoughts
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Posted 27 September 2005 - 10:00 PM
Welcome to the Forum.
If you want other students to discuss various aspects of trench Warfare with you I think it might be a good idea if you stated some views of your own first. Why not start the ball rolling with your views about just one of the aspects you mention?
We do actually have a section for Student Discussion so I have moved your post there.
If you want other students to discuss various aspects of trench Warfare with you I think it might be a good idea if you stated some views of your own first. Why not start the ball rolling with your views about just one of the aspects you mention?
We do actually have a section for Student Discussion so I have moved your post there.
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Posted 28 September 2005 - 10:48 AM
Sorry, but apart from your question about the Enfield rifle, these are not really questions for discussion, are they? For example asking what rifle the Germans used is just asking for factual information.
If you want people to discuss things with you, you need to put forward some opinions of your own first - and to support what you say by using some actual evidence.
If you want people to discuss things with you, you need to put forward some opinions of your own first - and to support what you say by using some actual evidence.
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Posted 28 September 2005 - 03:03 PM
who thinks that the bef could of had a better genral haig was good but he had kinda bad idead of how war should be fought .He understemated the machine guns which caused more causltiyds then anything else in the war who do you think would of made a better genral and why
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Posted 01 October 2005 - 10:57 AM
hey!! i dnt reli no nymor generals 
erm i thought that Von Schlieffen was good of thinking up the Schlieffen Plan but i dont really know much about himself i just know that i thought he was clever!! what do yout think? ok g2g guys cya l8r xXxXxXxXx x x ChLoE x x 
erm i thought that Von Schlieffen was good of thinking up the Schlieffen Plan but i dont really know much about himself i just know that i thought he was clever!! what do yout think? ok g2g guys cya l8r xXxXxXxXx x x ChLoE x x
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Posted 03 October 2005 - 04:18 PM
Trench warfare was first, to my knowledge adopted by Louis XIV, Vuaban (I forget spelling of name) to be more precise. It was a safer way to siege cities and 17th century fortifications. They would dig trenches towards the city/fort and position mortars to fire into the defenders position.
Then you get to World War One, in the meantime you have the development of more accurate rifles so trench warfare became more widely used. The main German plan, the Schlieffen plan was created in the 1890’s to address Germanys position of “in the middle” France on one side and Russia on the other. It mapped out how to win a war with France then turn and defeat Russia. The Germans logistically fail to achieve their full aims of the Schlieffen plan which was to capture Paris. They were pushed back (battle of the Marne) to the Noyon-Verdun line. Then of course the race to the sea to capture the sea ports which are important for supplying men down the line.
The Germans occupy a fairly large chunk of France, they don’t need to go anywhere and are on the defensive. These ambitions are evident in the Hindenburg line, which was a second line of fortifications, constructed with concrete. Stalemate begins with neither side being pushed back enough to break the deadlock.
It is interesting that the first major European war since the Napoleonic wars becomes one that does not matter as much on manpower than it does on economic power. Which states could keep up the supplying of food/guns/munitions/materials to the front, and Britain-France end up winning the economic war of trench warfare.
But what do I know? I am a 18th century historian!
Then you get to World War One, in the meantime you have the development of more accurate rifles so trench warfare became more widely used. The main German plan, the Schlieffen plan was created in the 1890’s to address Germanys position of “in the middle” France on one side and Russia on the other. It mapped out how to win a war with France then turn and defeat Russia. The Germans logistically fail to achieve their full aims of the Schlieffen plan which was to capture Paris. They were pushed back (battle of the Marne) to the Noyon-Verdun line. Then of course the race to the sea to capture the sea ports which are important for supplying men down the line.
The Germans occupy a fairly large chunk of France, they don’t need to go anywhere and are on the defensive. These ambitions are evident in the Hindenburg line, which was a second line of fortifications, constructed with concrete. Stalemate begins with neither side being pushed back enough to break the deadlock.
It is interesting that the first major European war since the Napoleonic wars becomes one that does not matter as much on manpower than it does on economic power. Which states could keep up the supplying of food/guns/munitions/materials to the front, and Britain-France end up winning the economic war of trench warfare.
But what do I know? I am a 18th century historian!
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