Race to the Sea
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The Race to the Sea took place from 17 September to 19 October 1914 during the First World War, after the Battle of the Frontiers and the German advance into France. The invasion had been stopped at t
Franco-German flanking moves, 15 September – 8 October 1914
German and Allied positions, 23 August – 5 September 1914
Eastern Front, 1914
Silesia, 1914
Trench warfare
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Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially shelte
Race to the Sea
…its resources decisively to defeat the remaining opponents. Over the winter lull, the French army established the theoretical basis of offensive trench warfare, originating many of the methods which became standard for the rest of the war. Infiltration tactics, in which dispersed formations of infantry were…
Frontline trenches, 1916; British (upper) and German (lower)
German soldiers of the 11th Reserve Hussar Regiment fighting from a trench, on the Western Front, 1916
Trenches at the Siege of Vicksburg 1863
German forward detachments guarding the entrance to a trench line in front of Arras in 1915