The most important new weapon of the war was the machine gun. The machine guns were the main reasons why trenches were built. The machine guns fired hundreds of times in one minute. Machine guns alone could wipe a thousand men. Another new weapon was the trench mortars. Trench mortars were simple weapons that fired heavy bombs at high angles, coming down on the enemy trenches. Another, more torturing new weapon was the poison gas. It was first used by Germany 1915. These poison gases were either released from canisters that the wind penetrated into the trenches of the enemy, o

This describes the loss of life’s and the destruction for the city of Verdun. Eventually the loss of Verdun for France led to the loss of The Battle of the Somme. Somme was also badly destroyed and suffered thousands of casualties.

“At Loos, in September 1915, twelve attacking British battalions- about 10,000 men- lost 8,246 in just three and a half hours, mainly because of machine-gun fire.” (Windrow, 18)

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