Somme River

On this day 90 years ago, the armies of the British Empire, along the line of the Somme River in France, stepped out from the cover of their trenches and into one of the worst slaughters in military history.

Archive 2006-07-01 2006

The British Expeditionary Force was evacuated by sea to Britain, and the tottering French army, under Premier Paul Reynaud, prepared to defend France along the Somme River, which runs from east to west, north of Paris.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

This meeting, he suggested, was comparable to the 1859 visit of a team of British scientists to the archeological sites of Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoueur de Perthes along the Somme River.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

This meeting, he suggested, was comparable to the 1859 visit of a team of British scientists to the archeological sites of Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoueur de Perthes along the Somme River.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

The discovery of rudely worked flints in the drift of the Somme River thus establishes the fact that some time during the Glacial Age, man in

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

The line turns to the south, parallel with the wood, crosses the fourth road (which goes on towards Peronne) and goes down some difficult, rather lovely, steep chalk slopes, wooded in parts, to the ruins of Fargny Mill on the Somme River.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

On the south or left bank of the Somme River the ground was held by the French.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

The Somme River is here a very beautiful expanse of clear chalk water like a long wandering shallow lake.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

The Franco-British offensive began on July 1, 1916, on the flat lands lying along both banks of the Somme River.

Georges Guynemer Bordeaux, Henry, 1870- 1918

The Franco-British offensive began on July 1, 1916, on the flat lands lying along both banks of the Somme River.

Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air Henry Bordeaux 1916