The Battle of Somme :: World War I WWI WW!

The Battle of SommeThere was fighting all over the universe of discourse leading up to the troth of the Somme. On August 3, 1914 Germany invaded Belgium. At the intercept of September the German troops were about 30 miles from Paris. At the battle of the Marne the German army was stop by the British and French armies. The Germans turn over trenches to help defend them when the troops were advancing. The British and German armies tried to go sideways instead of strait into each other and built trenches on the way. They both went all the way to the sea that was called the race to the sea. both of the armies tried braking through each others trenches. They defended with shells and machine guns and advanced on base of operations with rifles. Germany became the first country to use poison gas in warfare in 1915 at the battle Ypres. The British were the first army to perpetually use tanks as a weapon in war in the battle of the Somme. (Marshall, S. L. A. - World War I)The plan for th e Battle of the Somme was to get a huge new army of soldiers. The men and supplies would be collected in trenches. The British would then bomb the German trenches for 7 days. The British shoot over one and a half millions shells from 1537 guns at the German lines, which should seduce destroyed the German dug-outs which were dug 9 meters deep into the ground, shred their burred wire and kill most of the Germans. Ten mines were dug under the German strong points. They exploded two minutes before the attack. The British armies pass No Mans Land. They took over the German trenches. The Germans bombed British trenches but the British were ready for the attack. The British guns fired at the German trenches. The British gunmen stood together and fired. The sound of the gunfire could be heard in London. (Mier, Earl The booming Book History of the United States) The Germans survived the fire and begun to fire back, this made the Germans much excited, fewer men went on a sick parade and no-one valued to miss the fight. They fired back and forth all night. The firing stopped in the morning and there was silence. Miners dug and were trying to put mines in the German trenches. Mines blew and the attack began.