![]() Commanders on both sides failed to develop tactics for breaching entrenched positions without heavy casualties, resulting in such major battles as the Battle of the Somme, which cost the British Army some 420,000 casualties, the French an estimated 200,000 casualties, and the Germans an estimated 500,000. ![]() Artillery vastly more lethal than in the 1870s, coupled with machine guns, made crossing open ground extremely difficult.
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