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The battle of Somme....
Lucky13
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Posted: Friday, June 30, 2006 - 06:26 PM UTC
Started today and will end in 5 months and 18 days.
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Posted: Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 07:31 AM UTC
And the slaughter would be wholesale. The tactics of Napoleon vs. the machine gun of Maxim.

When you realize the cost of these battles, in the numbers of men killed and maimed - it boggles the mind.
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Posted: Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 06:57 PM UTC
By the end of the battle, the British Army had suffered 420,000 casualties including nearly 60,000 on the first day alone. The French lost 200,000 men and the Germans nearly 500,000.

Battle of Verdun.....21 February to 19 December 1916....
Casualties....

French: 378,000; of whom 120,000 dead
German: 337,000; of whom 100,000 dead

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Posted: Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 11:22 PM UTC
LEST WE FORGET
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