Battle Of Somme
British machine gun unit. The Battle Of Somme was an armed conflict fought by the British and French empire against the German empire in World War I that started on the first day of July and lasted until the 18th of November 1916. For 141 days, both sides of the upper reaches of the River Somme became the battleground of more than 3 million men, with more than a million wounded or killed making it one of the bloodiest battles in history. In the meeting at Chantilly, Oise on December of 1915, the Allied agreed to a strategy of combined offensives from French, British, Russian and Italian armies against the Central Powers in 1916 with the Somme campaign tasked to the French and British Army. The battle plan was for the French army to spearhead an attack south of Somme supported by the British army up north. The idea was conceived by French commander in chief, Joffre, as a battle of attrition intended to drain German forces reserves with territorial gains coming only as...