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| The Serre-Montauban line | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Serre-Montauban line was a long pattern of trenches. The trenches were seperated by a "no-man's-land," with the Germans on one side and the British and French on the other. Offensives had to be mounted by crossing "no-man's-land" to attack the enemie's trenches, all the while the enemy would train his machine guns on the person as they ran across on the open field, because of this the Britich attacked on the first day of the Battle of the Somme they suffered 60,000 casualities. This is the battle going on in The Garden of Forking Paths. The battle lasted three months. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Information provided by: Geoffery Baker http://www.rci.rutgers.edu Pictures Provided by: htt://www.somme1916.freeserve.com.uk |
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