Tag Archive for Loos

DISASTER AT LOOS

British Ranks Devastated; Victims of Own Gas. A Blatant, Needless Massacre. Special to The Great War Project (26-28 September) Day by day, the terrible scale of the British losses in the Battle of Loos in northern France is beginning to sink in. On September 25th a century ago 10,000 British troops are ordered to walk…

ACTION ON BOTH EASTERN AND WESTERN FRONTS

More Defeats for the Russians; British and French Plan New Offensive Special to The Great War Project (18-21 September) This is a moment in the war a century ago when fighting picks up on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. In the east, the Russian army continues to suffer defeat after defeat. On September 18th…

LULL IN WAR PROMPTS SECRET BRITISH PLANS

Plot Largest Offensive in British History. In East, Germanization of Occupied Lands Special to The Great War Project (24-30 August) With the war at Gallipoli all but over now a century ago, with the war on the Western and Eastern Fronts and in Mesopotamia (Iraq) now essentially deadlocked, and with the war in Arabia, Syria,…