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The Battle of the Somme


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The Battle of the Somme

... The Battle of the Somme The allies sent in total 18. 14 of them were British and 4 were French. They wanted to attack the fortified villages on the Somme that were held by the Germans. Below is the map of the villages of the Somme and where the British, French and German lines. The head of the British Army in France was General Rawlinson. He was in charge of 400,000 men to begin with. His plan was to shell the German trenches for 5 days then at 00.00Hrs just walk over no man's land and capture the Germans. Due to bad weather the shelling was delayed by 48 hours and ended up lasting for 7 days. When the wire wasn't cut General Rawlinson saw that

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