By 5 October 1917, the British attempt to push back the German line east of Ypres in a series of ‘bite and hold’ operations had met with some success. However, this had come at a great cost. Thousands had been killed, died of wounds or wounded so badly they would never fight again. Moreover, between the Broodseinde ridge, where the attack of 4 October was so successful, and Ypres, a distance of about eight kilometres, lay a landscape pulverised by the artillery shelling of both sides. As long as the weather had held, the British had been able to bring up supplies and the all-important artillery. Artillery was the essential ingredient of the ‘bite and hold’ tactics for if the ‘creeping barrages’ could not protect the advancing British infantry they would be at the mercy of the enemy machine gunners. After 4 October 1917 the rain poured down and the battlefield, and all the approaches to it, became a sea of mud. To successfully bring up heavy war equipment under these conditions proved next to impossible. Many at the highest level recommended a halt to the ‘Flanders Offensive’ for the winter but General Sir Douglas Haig, the commander-in-chief, was led to believe that the Germans were near breaking point and he ordered the battle to continue.

http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/battlefields/passchendaele...


http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/military_defense...

comping
التمشيط سواء كان أمنيا أو عسكريا عن نشوب حرب
liberation التحرير
أريى إسقاط القضم والاكتفاء بما تعنية
the combating platoons depend on slow liberation and combing technique in liberation battles.

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