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
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
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
Trench warfare
…the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. It became archetypically associated with World War I (1914–1918), when the Race to the Sea rapidly expanded trench use on the Western Front starting in September 1914. Trench warfare proliferated when a revolution in firepower was not matched…
Franco-German flanking moves, 15 September – 8 October 1914
German and Allied positions, 23 August – 5 September 1914