July 1, 1916, marked the beginning of a nearly five-months-long fight on the banks of the Somme river in northern France. By the time the battle ended on Nov. 18, French, British and German forces had ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. The British offensive on the Somme began on July 1, 1916. After 20 weeks, they had advanced six miles. The German ...

Friday July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Somme, estimated to be the bloodiest in World War I, lasted for five months. The first day of the battle was the ...

When President Hollande attends the centenary on Friday, he will be the first French head of state at a Somme commemoration in more than 80 years. President De Gaulle did not attend the 50th ...

On this first day of July, exactly 100 years ago, the peoples of the British Empire suffered the greatest military disaster in their history. A century later, “the Somme” remains the most harrowing ...

On July 1, 1916, the first shots were fired in what would become one of the bloodiest engagements in human history, the 141-day Battle of the Somme. It was nearly two years into what was then being ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

FeatureOn the site of the bloodiest battle of World War I, residents of Ovillers-la-Boisselle uphold the tradition of the bagpipers from Scottish, Irish, Canadian and Australian regiments who lost ...

Associate Professor Bruce Scates of the Army History Unit wrote recently that 20,000 Australian soldiers of the Great War are still "missing", a euphemism for the fact that their bodies "sank in the ...