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Article: The heart of the Delta. (Looking Back).(Mississippi history)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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On/March 21, 1918, a reinforced German army stormed the allied trenches of French, British, and Belgian defenders along a cold, slippery, 60-mile western front--the final German push in the Battle of the Somme--in a supreme effort to take the lead in the four-year-long war which had seen little change in real estate since fighting began in 1914. More than one million steel-helmeted invaders charged shoulder to shoulder as fast as a man in soggy leather hobnailed boots can run across a treeless, grassless, lifeless no man's land, rechurning 100 kilometers of muddy Belgian earth into a virtual sea of death. The scene was horrific! British losses alone totaled 77,650 men.
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