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By Arthur Conan Doyle
If ever a author wanted an advent Arthur Conan Doyle wouldn't be thought of that guy. in the end, Sherlock Holmes is likely to be the key literary detective of any age. upload to this canon his tales of technological know-how fiction and horror, his historic novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in constructing a courtroom Of charm, his poetical works and there's little room for anything. other than he was once additionally a committed and voluminous historian writing a lot concerning the wars in Southern Africa and the 1st global struggle. His research and outline of occasions is to be popular and his sort is welcoming even supposing he relays occasions of significant carnage and tragedy. right here we submit quantity three of his historical past of the nice battle.
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The latter was delivered at three in the morning after a fresh bombardment of only ten minutes. So ready were the Germans that an observer has remarked that had a string been tied from the British batteries to the German the opening could not have been more simultaneous, and they had brought together a great weight of metal. Every kind of high explosive, shrapnel, and trench mortar bombs rained on the front and support line, the communication trenches and No Man's Land, in addition to a most hellish fire of machine-guns.
They steadied themselves for a few minutes, and then dashing onwards once again they captured both the fourth line and the redoubt. So far forward were they now that they had reached regions north of Thiepval which were never trodden by a British foot again until three months of constant fighting had cleared a way to them. It was the great Schwaben Redoubt which was now before them. 40, leaving only the pioneer battalion, the 16th Irish Rifles, to guard the trenches. With the additional weight of the survivors of this reinforcing line the fringe of stormers, for they were now a fringe and nothing more, again rushed forward and threw themselves into the Schwaben trenches.
The 167th Brigade was left in reserve, having already suffered heavily while holding the water-logged trenches during the constant shell-fall of the last week. The 7th Middlesex alone had lost 12 officers and 300 men from this cause—a proportion which may give some idea of what the heavy British bombardment may have meant to the Germans. The advance was, therefore, upon a two-brigade front, the 168th being on the right and the 169th upon the left. The London Scottish and the 12th London Rangers were the leading battalions of the 168th, while the Westminsters and Victorias led the 169th with the 4th London, 13th Kensingtons, 2nd London and London Rifle Brigade in support.