These free timeline templates are visually appealing and feature a variety of styles, colours, formats, illustrations and infographics. Though Haig's men were penetrating the German defenses, they were quickly hampered by heavy rains which descended on the region. Having crossed 2 mi (3.2 km) of mud, the On 20 September, the Allies attacked on a 14,500 yd (8.2 mi; 13.3 km) front and by mid-morning, had captured most of their objectives, to a depth of about 1,500 yd (1,400 m).Plumer ordered the attack due on 26 September to go ahead but reduced the objectives of the 33rd Division. On 11 April, Plumer authorised a withdrawal of the southern flank of the Second Army. In the years after the war, Haig was severely criticized by David Lloyd George and others for the small territorial gains that were made in exchange for massive troop losses. The British attacked towards Westroozebeke on the night of 1/2 December but the plan to mislead the Germans by not bombarding the German defences until eight minutes after the infantry began their advance came undone. Allied troops attacked the German Army in many operations. Reserve battalions moved back behind the artillery protective line and the The French First Army and British Second and Fifth armies attacked on 9 October, on a 13,500 yd (7.7 mi; 12.3 km) front, from south of Broodseinde to St Jansbeek, to advance half of the distance from Broodseinde ridge to Passchendaele, on the main front, which led to many casualties on both sides.

Haig wrote that if the Allies could win the war in 1917, "the chief people to suffer would be the socialists".195th, 16th, 4th Bavarian, 18th, 227th, 240th, 187th and 22nd Reserve divisions).German troops engaged were from the 239th, 39th, 4th, 44th Reserve, 7th, 11th, 11th Bavarian, 238th, 199th, 27th, 185th, 111th and 40th divisions.German casualties were counted in ten-day periods. Conversely, the offensive relieved pressure on the French, whose army was being struck by mutinies, and inflicted large, irreplaceable losses on the German Army. The official name of the battle is "3rd Battle of Ypres", but is universally known as the Battle of Passchendaele…

These free timeline templates are visually appealing and feature a variety of styles, colors, formats, illustrations and infographics. The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was fought during the First World War from 31 July to 10 November 1917.

Gough planned an offensive based on the The Fifth Army plan was more ambitious than the plans devised by Rawlinson and Plumer, which had involved an advance of 1,000–1,750 yd (910–1,600 m) on the first day, by compressing their first three attacks into one day instead of three.After rain delays from 2 August, II Corps attacked again on 10 August, to capture the rest of the black line (second objective) on the Gheluvelt plateau.

The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the fight of the Third Battle of Ypres, was a fight by the Allies against the German Empire in July 1917. The infantry advance succeeded but German artillery-fire and infantry counter-attacks isolated the infantry of the 18th (Eastern) Division in Glencorse Wood.

The Battle of Passchendaele was fought July 31 to November 6, 1917, during German strongpoints and pillboxes along the St Julien–Poelcappelle road in front of the Careful investigation of records of more than eighty years showed that in Flanders the weather broke early each August with the regularity of the Indian monsoon: once the Autumn rains set in difficulties would be greatly enhanced....Unfortunately, there now set in the wettest August for thirty years.only the first part of which was quoted by Lloyd George (1934), Liddell Hart (1934) and Leon Wolff (1959); in a 1997 essay, John Hussey called the passage by Charteris "baffling"....there is no reason to suggest that the weather broke early in the month with any regularity.From 1901 to 1916, records from a weather station at ...during the summers preceding the Flanders campaign August days were more often dry than wet.There were 127 mm (5 in) of rain in August 1917 and 84 mm (3 in) of the total fell on Petain had committed the French Second Army to an attack at Verdun in mid-July, in support of the Flanders offensive. The 3rd Canadian Division captured Vapour Farm on the corps boundary, Furst Farm to the west of Meetcheele and the crossroads at Meetcheele but remained short of its objective.

The British The choice of Flanders, its climate, the selection of Large British offensive operations in Flanders were not possible in 1915, due to a lack of resources.Minor operations took place in the Ypres salient in 1916, some being German initiatives to distract the Allies from the preparations for the offensive at Verdun and later attempts to divert Allied resources from the Battle of the Somme.

Worn-out divisions from the south had been sent to Flanders to recuperate closer to the coast. Turning the scarred landscape to mud, the situation was worsened as the preliminary bombardment had destroyed much of the area's drainage systems.

By using ThoughtCo, you accept our (Q5726)British anti-aircraft gun at Morbecque, 29 August 1917Royal Field Artillery gunners hauling an 18-pounder field gun out of the mud near Zillebeke, 9 August 1917Derelict tank used as the roof of a dug out, Zillebeke, 20 September 1917 (Q6416)Wounded men at the side of a road after the Battle of Menin RoadAustralian infantry with small box respirator gas masks, Ypres, September 1917British soldiers moving forward during the Battle of Broodseinde. Though Allied casualties were high, new American troops were beginning to arrive which would augment British and French forces. At about Attacks to threaten Lens and Lille were to be made by the On the higher ground, the Germans continued to inflict many losses on the British divisions beyond Langemarck but on 19 August, after two fine dry days, XVIII Corps conducted a novel infantry, tank, aircraft and artillery operation.