The 600 soldiers were assaulted by the shots of shells of canons in front and on both sides of them. Still, they rode courageously forward toward their own deaths: “Into the jaws of Death / Into the mouth of hell / Rode the six hundred.”

In the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War, the British tried to defend the port of Balaclava against the Russians. During the Charge of the Light Brigade, a lot of British cavalry died because of a mistake. In the end, the British kept control of Balaclava, but it was really a victory for the Russians.

The name comes from their use at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War of 1854, referring to the town near Sevastopol in the Crimea, where British troops there wore knitted headgear to keep warm. Handmade balaclavas were sent over to the British troops to help protect them from the bitter cold weather.

They are surrounded by enemy guns, with “cannon to the right of them, / Cannon to the left of them, / Cannon in front of them.” Everywhere the cavalry looks they are “stormed at with shot and shell.” Against these guns, they have only “sabres bare.” In other words, they just have swords—hardly as powerful or …

It is called ‘the valley of Death’ to emphasise that it is the place where the soldiers will die in battle.

10 Things That Could Have Saved Your Life In The Trenches

• Trenches. Equipment.
• Trenches. Trenches provided relative protection against increasingly lethal weaponry.
• Steel helmet. Uniforms and insignia.
• Steel helmet.
• Camouflage.
• Camouflage.
• Gas helmet.
• Gas helmet.

A few of these places are private or public sites with original or reconstructed trenches preserved as a museum or memorial. Nevertheless, there are still remains of trenches to be found in remote parts of the battlefields such as the woods of the Argonne, Verdun and the mountains of the Vosges.

Many men killed in the trenches were buried almost where they fell. If a trench subsided, or new trenches or dugouts were needed, large numbers of decomposing bodies would be found just below the surface. They usually went for the eyes first and then they burrowed their way right into the corpse.

During WWI, trenches were used to try to protect soldiers from poison gas, giving them more time to put on gas masks. Dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever, and trench foot were all common diseases in the trenches, especially during WWI. Gigantic rats were common in the trenches of WWI and WWII.

the narrow, muddy, treeless stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes, that separated German and Allied trenches during the First World War. Being in No Man’s Land was considered very dangerous since it offered little or no protection for soldiers.

The loss of life was greater than in any previous war in history, in part because militaries were using new technologies, including tanks, airplanes, submarines, machine guns, modern artillery, flamethrowers, and poison gas.

Trenches were dug in a zigzag pattern so that if an enemy entered the trench, he could not fire straight down the line. The main trench lines were connected by communicating trenches, allowing for the movement of messages, supplies, and soldiers and were lined with barbed wire.

Current no man’s land United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus (The Green Line) and abandoned Varosha has acted as a no man’s land between Cyprus and Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus since 1974.

Trenches were not dug in straight lines. Otherwise, if the enemy had a successive offensive, and got into your trenches, they could shoot straight along the line. Soldiers also made dugouts and funk holes in the side of the trenches to give them some protection from the weather and enemy fire.

No Man’s Land

Soldiers were only occasionally involved in a full-scale attack across No Man’s Land. However, men were sometimes ordered into No Man’s Land to obtain information about the enemy. They would have to crawl forward on their stomachs in an attempt to get close enough to find out what the enemy was up to.

1a : an area of unowned, unclaimed, or uninhabited land. b : an unoccupied area between opposing armies. c : an area not suitable or used for occupation or habitation downtown was a retailing no-man’s-land.

Simple answer: Germany, by far. Why? Because Germany recognized, at the beginning of stalemate in late ’14, that frontal assault was suicide, and that defensive warfare was far more economical and efficient, unlike the allies who kept trying for the “great breakthrough”.

Disease and ‘shell shock’ were rampant in the trenches. With soldiers fighting in close proximity in the trenches, usually in unsanitary conditions, infectious diseases such as dysentery, cholera and typhoid fever were common and spread rapidly.

Ocean trenches are long, narrow depressions on the seafloor. Ocean trenches are a result of tectonic activity, which describes the movement of the Earth’s lithosphere. In particular, ocean trenches are a feature of convergent plate boundaries, where two or more tectonic plates meet.

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