First Battle of Ypres

close to battlefields. Gas was mainly used to flush out or kill enemies deep in trenches. The gas was nicknamed “mustard gas” due to its spicy smell of mustard. It’s true name was chlorine-phosgene gas. The chlorine gas was first deployed in barrels by the Germans near Ypres, Belgium, to combat the British. This attack led to 1069 injured and 69 deaths. What made the gas even more dangerous was its tendency to cause deformation forcing soldiers to suffer much pain and putting them out of…

scenarios. In regard to his conduct in leadership, he was not short of critics, for he was a widely contested person of interest. Despite his critics, Montgomery deserved his praise, because of his extraordinary impact due to his leadership during the Battle of El Alamein, direction of all of the Allied ground troops in Operation Overlord, and assurance of the well-being of his troops. Overall, he provided clarity and hope on the battlefield. Bernard Montgomery served in the army and climbed…

course of World War One, the inclusion of fighter aircraft, chemical weaponry and armoured tanks resulted in dramatic changes to military warfare. Fighter aircraft affected the way the war was fought due to the large role they played in late WW1 battles and because they provided a new way of combat. Chemical weaponry’s effect was largely psychological and because of the need to protect soldiers from its effects, preventative technologies were developed and refined. Tanks became a major…

The Western Front: The most important battlefield from World War I was the Western Front. This was home to fighting soldiers from Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Australia. This battle eventually resulted in trench warfare with 700 kilometres of zig zag trenches spread from the “Swiss Frontier to the English Channel, cutting across northern France and into southern Belgium.” This trench warfare started a stalemate and was home to some of the most gruesome suffering and horrible conditions…

other hand, am not doing as well. I have news that makes me feel sick every time I think about it. Roger and I will be heading overseas to help France in the war. France has suffered lots of casualties from the Oise-Aisne campaign, along with the battle of Ypres-Lys, so Roger and I believe that any help is better than none. Our boat leaves next Monday from Boston and arrive at the Saint Nazaire port in France. We are not sure yet where we will be stationed, but I would assume we will start…

Russia. That alliance was called the Triple Entente. During this alliance, Germany was pairing themselves with Austria-Hungary, also known as the central powers. On June 28th, 1914, in an event widely regarded to have sparked the outbreak of the first great war. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungary empire, was found shot to death along with his wife by a Bosnian Serbian named Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Archduke had been inspecting the imperial armed forces led by his…

The First World War was the first conflict that had a truly global reach. It was also one of the most deadly, with 35 million casualties, of which 14 million were killed. It was a brutal war of attrition with thousands of soldiers killed and seriously wounded every day; indeed, the true casualty numbers are very difficult, if not impossible, to comprehend for those of us who were not actually there to witness the carnage. It was also a war of technology and of invention. The science of killing…

The wife has “such a talent for making cloth that she [surpasses] the weavers of Ypres and Ghent” (23). This statement of skill marks an important difference in the descriptions of the Wife and the Prioress — Chaucer describes the Prioress mainly by her attitude and manners, whereas he characterizes the Wife by her talents. This characterization…

argues that ‘the evidence for mass enthusiasm at the time is surprisingly weak’. This misleading portrayal of British society was fuelled by the memoirs of politicians, in particular Lloyd George. Writing almost twenty years after the outbreak of the First World War, the Chancellor at the time recalled how the crowds behaved in London after the announcement of war on 4 August, he wrote ‘hundreds were buying Union Jacks...the crowds cheered...with extraordinary fervour. It was a scene of…

The Battle of Passchendaele, or the Third Battle of Ypres, was a campaign fought in World War I by the Allies, namely the British Empire and France, and Germany. The campaign began on 31 July 1917, lasting until 6 November of that year, when Passchendaele fell to the Allies. Its impetus can be found in the long-term background preceding it, such as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the alliance system, the Schlieffen Plan, and trench warfare which resulted in a war of attrition; as…