Somme
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Somme river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising near Saint-Quentin, N France, and flowing generally NW past Amiens into the English Channel; connected by canal with the Scheldt and Oise rivers. Once an obstacle to east-west movement, the now reclaimed marshlands in the valley are noted for truck farming. During World War I heavy fighting took place there.
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Remembrance: The horror, the horror, the Somme; On this day, 85 years ago, 20,000 young British men died in the first 24 hours of the most gruelling battle of the First World War. Where they fell has become a byword for the futility of war.(Features)
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The Somme: the name has burned itself so deeply into ... conflict. But above all else, the battle of the Somme - a slog that took four and a half months ... very different - brave and determined. The Somme was seen as a necessary rite of passage for ...
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