An Island Unit: The 2nd Siege Battery in the Great War
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Nineteen seventeen was to be theyear the Allies won the war. TheFrench planned a massive spring offensivenear the River Somme. The Britishplanned an equally massive summeroffensive near the city of Ypres. Aprilbrought news that the United Stateshad declared war on Germany andpromised a million troops by 1918.Allied generals were confident the warwould be over by then.
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- Title
- An Island Unit: The 2nd Siege Battery in the Great War
- Creator
- Kennedy, Earle
- Subject
- Island Magazine, Prince Edward Island Museum
- Description
- Nineteen seventeen was to be theyear the Allies won the war. TheFrench planned a massive spring offensivenear the River Somme. The Britishplanned an equally massive summeroffensive near the city of Ypres. Aprilbrought news that the United Stateshad declared war on Germany andpromised a million troops by 1918.Allied generals were confident the warwould be over by then.
- Publisher
- Prince Edward Island Museum
- Contributor
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- Document
- Format
- application/pdf
- Identifier
- vre:islemag-batch2-649
- Source
- 50
- Language
- en_US
- Relation
- Coverage
- Rights
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