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100 days – Day 70: Battle of the Somme
100 days – Day 70: Battle of the Somme
Today marks the anniversary of the beginning of a battle, the name of which – for most – symbolises the horror, bloodiness and futility of the Great War: on this day, 1 July, in 1916 the Battle of the Somme started and would last until the November of that year.
By the end of the battle, the British Army had suffered 420,000 casualties including nearly 60,000 on the first day alone. The French lost 200,000 men and the Germans nearly 500,000.
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