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The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire.
Schlacht an der Somme; 1916; Beaumont-Hamel; Gommecourt (Pas-de-Calais) Puisieux (Pas-de-Calais) Usage on et.wikipedia.org Somme'i lahing; Usage on eu.wikipedia.org Ancre ibaiko gudua; Usage on fa.wikipedia.org نبرد سم; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Bataille de la Somme; Georges de Bazelaire; Bataille de la crête de Bazentin; Bataille de Morval
As the highest point on the 1916 Somme battlefield, the town was a vital objective – whichever side controlled it would have unimpeded views of much of the enemy front. The Allies expected to capture the town (and beyond) on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, but three weeks later it was still firmly in German hands.
The Somme (UK: / s ɒ m / SOM, US: / s ʌ m / SUM; [1] [2] French: ⓘ) is a river in Picardy, northern France. The river is 245 km (152 mi) in length, from its source in the high ground of the former Arrouaise Forest [ fr ] at Fonsomme near Saint-Quentin , to the Bay of the Somme , in the English Channel .
De Sousa David, La Reconstruction et sa Mémoire dans les villages de la Somme 1918–1932, Editions La vague verte, 2002, 212 pages Bonnard Jean-Yves, La reconstitution des terres de l'Oise après la Grande Guerre: les bases d'une nouvelle géographie du foncier , in Annales Historiques Compiégnoises 113–114, pp. 25–36, 2009.
The Battle of the Somme was an offensive fought on the Western Front during World War I from 1 July to 18 November 1916 as one of the greatest engagements of the war. It was fought between French , British and Dominion forces and the German Empire in the Somme River valley and vicinity in northern France .
The 1st Army held the Somme front from the River Somme north to Gommecourt and had a similar number of troops to the British opposite, with ten divisions in reserve. [2] [a] On the night of 1/2 January, a German attack captured Hope Post near the Beaumont Hamel–Serre road, before being lost along with another post on the night of 5/6 January. [3]
Fricourt is a village that was fought over in July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, which took place in France during the First World War.Fricourt is 3 mi (4.8 km) from Albert, north of Bray and west of Mametz, near the D 938 road and at the junction of the D 147 with the D 64.