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Example sentences for "trench warfare"

  • As others knew it only under the limitations of trench warfare, the resistance which they now must face was familiar to them only through instruction.

  • The great inconvenience which was occasioned to parties engaged in the routine of trench warfare, on ration or engineering duties, and the effect on movement in the rear after an assault, taken cumulatively, represented a big military factor.

  • Even before the colossal German effort was frustrated by the first Marne battle and the development of trench warfare, the German laboratories were within an ace of regaining the initiative by their work on cloud gas.

  • Referring to protective methods of trench warfare, he continues, "Where one party had gained time .

  • This the Romans besieged, and a period of trench warfare ensued.

  • The war on the Western front settled down to trench warfare.

  • But the military mind was still resisting the use of the tank, the obvious weapon for decision in trench warfare.

  • In the same way as the general principles of tactics in open warfare agree with those of trench warfare, they are guided by the same logical reasoning.

  • The attitude of men in trench warfare is an illustration.

  • It's a useful thing, anyway, to be short in trench warfare.

  • After the Germans had been driven back to their old lines in France, there was danger that the contest might settle down to the old form of trench warfare.

  • Collect pictures and charts illustrative of trench warfare, and of devastated areas of Belgium and France.

  • The enemy's artillery was very active, and the shelling in its intensity now recalled the days of the big battles of trench warfare.

  • After the dazing and deadening effect, the abrutissement of a battle, nothing told so much on the dash and energy of troops as long, dreary months of trench warfare, even in a line relatively quiet.

  • Trench warfare developed in the world-war in a way that has never before been deemed necessary or possible, but the miles of trenches which conceal the men from the fire of the enemy are plainly visible to the airmen.

  • What is the fundamental duty in trench warfare?

  • Watching is thus the fundamental duty in trench warfare.

  • Trench warfare, the inevitable form of modern warfare, is a continuous series of outpost duty.

  • The artillery remained in action, and had settled down by the end of the month to the old familiar routine of trench warfare.

  • Now, and afterwards, efforts were constantly being made by which to vary the monotony of trench warfare, and to make things more lively for the Huns; as an example, I select the following instance.

  • These individuals were officers sent over from the Canadian Training Base for short periods of one or two weeks to receive practical instruction in trench warfare.

  • Summer was now well advanced, and it was doubtful if a further "push" would be attempted that season, and we gradually settled down to the routine of trench warfare.

  • So ended the first attempt on our part to renew the offensive after the stagnation of a winter of trench warfare.

  • It is surrounded by gardens and plantations; most of these are bordered by thick cactus hedges, which played a prominent part in the days of trench warfare.

  • The grenades, however, held their own, and were much used in trench warfare.

  • Trench warfare is horrible, with its villainous grenades and bombs, which are quite different from these devices in former days, and are no better than tools in the hands of a butcher.

  • More prisoners are taken in trench warfare than in any other form of military action owing to the fact that if the men do not escape before an assault takes place they have no chance of doing so when the enemy is actually amongst them.

  • Their arrival gave me joy of soul in no uncertain measure: for I was heartily tired of trench warfare.

  • The Division continued to hold a quiet but very extended front till the end of May, receiving a succession of units from new Divisions to serve their apprenticeship to trench warfare.

  • The Battle of the Aisne marked the commencement of trench warfare, and the Royal Engineers (Lt.

  • During the month of August the Division had the pleasure of close association with our American Allies, part of the 27th American, a New York Division, doing their attachment and apprenticeship to trench warfare with us.

  • Stump Road remained undiscovered and passed into the apocrypha of trench warfare.

  • The valley north-east of Gouzeaucourt was littered with all kinds of relics, which in trench warfare or in our attacks had been unknown.

  • Trench warfare, which in the words of a 1915 pamphlet 'could and must cease' had managed to survive that pamphlet and the abortive strategy of the battle of Loos.

  • Stand-to' was a regular institution of trench warfare, both an hour before dark and an hour before dawn.


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