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    The Leipzig Salient was the British term for a German defensive position built in 1915 on the Somme in France, during the First World War, opposite the...
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    from the village, the three Tambour mines were blown beneath the Tambour salient on the west edge of the village, to raise a lip of earth, to block the...
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    Bouzincourt, he participated in the assaults on the Schwaben Redoubt and the Leipzig salient. Tolkien's time in combat was a terrible stress for Edith, who feared...
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    War. On 1 July 1916, Turnbull was awarded the VC for his actions at Leipzig Salient, Authuille, France, where Turnbull's party captured a post of apparent...
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  • sent to the frontline in France, he was killed on 1 July 1916 at the Leipzig Salient on the first day on the Somme. He was buried at Lonsdale Cemetery,...
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    retreat to the British front line by 6:00 a.m. A German attack on the Leipzig Salient at 1:15 a.m. from three directions, was repulsed and followed by a...
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    Thermite shells. On 21 August 48th (SM) and 25th Division attacked the Leipzig Salient behind an 'excellent barrage'. A follow-up attack by 7th Bde of 25th...
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    amount of ground and the 49th (West Riding) Division, attacked at the Leipzig Salient. At 3:00 a.m., just before the Fourth Army attacked, the 4th Division...
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  • (WR) Division was fighting to improve the British positions in the Leipzig Salient, as a preliminary for the next major attack (the Battle of Bazentin...
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    Arras. As part of Allied operations in the Ypres Salient, British mining against the German-held salient at Wijtschate (Wytchaete or Whitesheet to the British)...
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  • the night of 9/10 August when they laid down a barrage to isolate 'Leipzig Salient', for which 49th (WR) Division had been battling for a month. On 15...
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    25th Division to replace equipment casualties as it assaulted the Leipzig Salient. A follow-up attack by 7th Bde of 25th Division on 24 August, covered...
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  • November 1915. On 3 July 1916, he was killed in a failed attack on the Leipzig Salient, during the early stages of the Battle of the Somme. Stevenson is commemorated...
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    fortified village of Thiepval and the redoubt at the angle of the 'Leipzig Salient'. The division was then to go on to capture a series of strongpoints...
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    been fortified and entrenched, further north the Nordwerk and the Leipzig Salient in the X Corps area dominated the left of the III Corps sector, which...
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    fortified village of Thiepval and the redoubt at the angle of the 'Leipzig Salient'. The division was then to go on to capture a series of strongpoints...
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    himself wrote on this defense in his book stating: On 1 July 1916 at Leipzig Salient, Authuille, France, Sergeant Turnbull's party captured a post of apparent...
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    helped by the 32nd Division attack on the Leipzig Salient which received much of the machine-gun fire from the salient and posts on Thiepval Spur, the two leading...
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    ground without cover to the German garrisons in La Boisselle and the Leipzig salient. On the right flank of III Corps, the 34th Division, composed of Pals...
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  • offensive continued, 49th Division remained holding the area round the Leipzig salient, with a number of small actions and suffering a good deal of shelling...
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    the Worcestershire Regiment attacked the German stronghold of the Leipzig Salient on the Thiepval Ridge in the region of the Somme. David was the son...
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    St-Martin, or in his extensive correspondence and journals. However, there are salient points which mark the outline of his thought. Baader starts from the position...
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    Allstedt (before Thuringia) and some Brunswickian eastern exclaves and salients (Calvörde and the eastern part of the former Blankenburg district) with...
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    Battle of Messines (1917) (category Ypres Salient)
    Haig the capture of Messines Ridge (part of the southern arc of the Ypres Salient) before an operation to capture the Gheluvelt plateau further north. The...
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  • ISSN 1478-0771. OCLC 4795865180 – via CumInCAD. Rasch 1985, p. 126. "Salient Features  – Global Pagoda website". Archived from the original on 2009-02-13...
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    German army and war economy. The Hindenburg Line, built behind the Noyon Salient, was to replace the old front line as a precaution against a resumption...
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    , Leipzig 1910. Von Pol zu Pol, 3 vol., Leipzig 1911–1912; new edition Wiesbaden 1980. Bagdad – Babylon – Ninive, Leipzig 1918 Jerusalem, Leipzig 1918...
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  • regularization", creation of consociation) Desire for plasticity (creation of a salient motivation of a name) Anthropological salience of a concept (i.e., anthropologically...
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    on local and community involvement. The issue of parks versus people is salient in the Cuvette Centrale, within the bonobos' range. There is strong local...
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    surrender.[citation needed] In the salient north of Kharkov, the Soviet offensive has bogged down. In the southern salient, Kleist has launched his counter-offensive...
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