On 26 August Captain Bryant accepted the German surrender and Togoland was carved up between Britain and France. WW1: How did an artist help Britain fight the war at sea? documentWW1: How did an ...

General Haig, the senior British officer, planned to destroy the German defences with an intense seven day artillery bombardment and by detonating a series of massive mines under enemy lines.

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In a few days, several divisions of the Third Army had seized a beachhead through the German lines. At the same time as Patton’s troops were crossing the Rhine, Bernard Montgomery’s 21st Army ...