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Chapter 6. Trench Warfare -- 1915

The second year of the First World War saw the start of trench warfare and the use of poison gas. To view remnants of these notorious grounds, tours of seven battlefields are described where the British Army under General John French and the French Army under General Joseph Joffre attempted to expel the German invader. They include Hill 60 near Ypres, the Flanders fields north of Ypres, the battlefields of Artois at Notre-Dame de Lorette near Arras, the Forêt d’Argonne east of Reims, Forêt d’Apremont near St-Mihiel, Butte des Éparges east of Verdun, and battle of Loos.

#17 Capture of Hill 60 -- 17 April to 5 May 1915
#18 Second Battle of Ypres -- 22 April to 25 May 1915
#19 Battles of Artois (Arras) -- 27 Sept. 1914 to 28 Sept. 1915
#20 Battle of the Argonne -- 14 September 1914 to November 1915
#21 Forêt d’Apremont -- 26 September 1914 to 14 April 1915
#22 Butte des Éparges -- 21 September 1914 to October 1915
#23 Third Battle of Artois (Loos) -- 25 September to 14 October 1915