Search results for "Trench warfare" - New World Encyclopedia
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- image_name=Cheshire Regiment trench Somme 1916.jpg| image_desc=A British trench July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme| ...794 bytes (120 words) - 16:07, 21 February 2022
- Between the peninsula and the Bering Sea runs the Kuril-Kamchatka ... with to extinction via encroachment, warfare, and disease. Small native ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- of launching it (a ship), having dug a trench under it, equal to the ship ... by the blocks. Some anti-submarine warfare warships have protruding ...11 KB (1,823 words) - 19:34, 3 August 2023
- advance, the older men and women dug a trench parallel to Pyrrhus' ... assumed defensive positions behind their trench. They were encouraged by ...24 KB (3,591 words) - 22:02, 26 February 2024
- which could be transported safely, would survive trench conditions, and which would not spoil in between the factory and the front lines. Throughout ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- resources, and were a portent of the trench warfare of World War I. ... to defensive forces, First World War trench warfare briefly revived a form ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- known for his harrowing poems on the horrors of trench and chemical warfare. Siegfried Sassoon had a profound effect on Owen's poetic voice, and ...8 KB (1,341 words) - 18:46, 4 May 2023
- the infantry—but were designed for trench warfare. They were untroubled ... could overcome the obstacles of trench warfare. Mouquet Farm finally ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- the ground ensued, reminiscent of the trench warfare of World War I. The French ... someone adept at World War I-style trench warfare, something for which ...46 KB (7,166 words) - 11:39, 20 September 2023
- and German Forces were stalled in trench warfare along the Western Front. ... for the Sea, and quickly extended their trench systems from the English ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- raids, infiltrations, or guerrilla warfare, are generally not considered ... examples. Such barriers have also included trench lines and, in more modern ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Warfare and disease eventually reduced the number of Native Americans ... and Ontario). The Mackinac Strait, a deep trench separating the Upper and ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare. In addition to remembrance, Memorial Day is also used as a time for picnics, barbecues, family gatherings ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- "rifled gun." Rifles are used in warfare, competitive target shooting ... ability to develop a way, during the trench warfare of WWI, to attack a trench ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- fitted with bayonets and became known as trench guns. Those without such ... Due to the cramped conditions of trench warfare, the American shotguns ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 14:26, 27 January 2023
- the plans for battle had reverted to trench warfare with objectives being ... the Suvla front another case of static trench warfare. The offensive ...37 KB (5,841 words) - 21:41, 25 June 2022
- Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- Anti-tank warfare refers to any method of combating military armored ... In the area of anti-tank warfare, three terms are often used: "Mobility ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- infantry or cavalry). In modern armored warfare, armored units equipped ... like the foot soldiers, who at least had a trench to protect them. Machine ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- down into a stalemate on the Western Front. Trench warfare developed and neither side could achieve a successful breakthrough. In 1915, all attempts ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:41, 26 September 2023