![]() ![]() The battle lasted for almost 10 months and siphoned off many of the French troops originally intended for the Somme offensive. Commanders spent the winter of 1916 developing a major offensive to regain control of the Somme.īut their plans were upset when Germany launched a massive attack against French forces near Verdun (a city in northeast France) on February 21, 1916. British and French forces desperately needed a success. Germany had marched through Belgium and into northern France, where its army was securely entrenched near the River Somme. ![]() The Eastern Front was in disarray and the Western Front was locked in a stalemate. The Gallipoli campaign had been a failure. At the end of 1915 the war was going badly for the Allies. The Somme offensive had its origins in Anglo-French plans to bring hostilities to a rapid close.
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