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On this day: 18 November

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    Posted by Vizzer aka U_numbers (U2011621) on Friday, 18th November 2011

    1916: The Battle of the Somme ends after more than four months of fighting and 147,000 Allied soldiers killed.Β 
    And also 164,000 German soldiers killed.

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    Posted by Allan D (U1791739) on Saturday, 19th November 2011

    As well as a complete revision of Allied tactics on the Western Front that was eventually to lead to victory 2 years later. German resources were fatally drained by a combination of the Battles of Somme and Verdun (the pressure on which the Somme was designed to relieve).

    German High Command realised there was no effective prospect of achieving a military breakthrough on the Western Front so the fatal decision was taken at the beginning of 1917 to revert to unrestricted submarine warfare in a bid to remove Britain (who was effectively subsidising France and Italy) from the war. However it failed in that objective, luring the USA into the conflict instead.

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