2018年4月23日 · Trench warfare in World War I was employed primarily on the Western Front, an area of northern France and Belgium that saw combat between German troops and Allied …

Very early in the war, British defensive doctrine suggested a main trench system of three parallel lines, interconnected by communications trenches. The point at which a communications …

World War I was a war of trenches. After the early war of movement in the late summer of 1914, artillery and machine guns forced the armies on the Western Front to dig trenches to protect …

Trenches were widespread on the Western Front - a 400-plus mile stretch weaving through France and Belgium and down to the Swiss border. This is where the majority of British and …

On the Western Front, the war was fought by soldiers in trenches. Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived. They were very muddy, uncomfortable and the...

World War 1: Trench Warfare. Why did trenches exist? What were conditions like inside the trenches? And how did trench warfare come to an end?

By the end of 1914, lines of trenches snaked across the Western Front, stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss frontier. They varied in quality and sophistication, but British private …

In World War One, the trench system on the Western Front extended from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps - a distance of roughly 475 miles. It was in trenches that British soldiers spent...

Trench warfare of the First World War can be said to have begun in September 1914 and ended when the Allies made a breakthrough attack that began in late July 1918. Before and after …

Trench raids aimed at forcing temporary entry into the enemy’s line in order to kill defenders, destroy fortifications and weapons, gain intelligence by the capture of maps and documents, …