... Antwerp for a few more days before they would send some reinforcements. However, hardly any troops arrived, causing the Belgians to lose control of Antwerp. Since the northern part of the front lines were not in trench warfare yet, both sides saw that it would be an excellent chance to attack the enemy's flank. The Allies and Germans saw a grand opportunity to attack ... flood covered the last ten miles of trenches in the north, and later demonstrated an obstruction to the movement of allied troops and equipment. The main attack was on the front lines south of La Basée Canal, where the...

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... this was to be broken. By the start of 1915 new and innovative ideas were being made by Allies and the Germans to break the lines of the Western Front, in the hope that one of the sides could gain an "edge" upon the other. One of the first revolutionary weapons of the ... to induce a violent fit of sneezing. Three months later, on 31 January 1915, the Germans deployed tear gas for the first time on the Eastern Front. Fired in liquid form contained in 15 cm howitzer shells against the Russians at Bolimov, the new experiment proved unsuccessful, with the tear gas liquid failing ... (alt...

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... Also just as important were the troops from African nations that fought with the Allies not only in Africa but also in Europe along the Western Front. Regiments from Algeria were the most common in Europe, but also regiments from Morocco, Senegal and others were found in smaller degrees. While Algerians were ... reason the French Army was so desperate to have these men fighting was due to the massive casualties that they were taking all over the Western Front not to mention as a result of battles like Verdun. The idea of conscription was not popular at all in the French colonies. In fac...

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... the novel, Remarque maintains that "a generation of men ... were destroyed by the war" (Remarque, All Quiet Preface). Indeed, in All Quiet on the Western Front, the meaning of language itself is, to a great extent, destroyed. Early in the novel, Baumer notes how his elders had been facile with words prior to ... he visits his home town. This leave is disastrous for Baumer because he realizes that he can not communicate with the people on the home front because of his military experiences and their limited, or nonexistent, understanding of the war. When he first enters his house, for exam...

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• Grade Level: High School