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WEBSTA @ history - #DidYouKnow 100 years ago today, Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I, called off the Battle of the Somme in France after nearly five months of mass slaughter? The massive Allied offensive began at 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, when 100,000 British soldiers poured out of their trenches and into no-man’s-land. By the end of the day, 20,000 British soldiers were dead and 40,000 wounded. It was the single heaviest day of casualties in British... 老照片, 照片