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Somme , department (1990 pop. 548,300), N France, in Picardy, on the English Channel. Amiens is the capital.

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Somme, Battle of the

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Somme, Battle of the a long-running battle in World War I near the upper basin of the Somme River in France. In the four and a half months of fighting (July to mid-November, 1916) little ground was gained by the British and French, attacking entrenched German positions. Casualties were in the hundreds of thousands on both sides, leading to the battle to become a emblem of the destructiveness of war. A smaller battle was fought in the same area in World War II.

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