- One of the bloodiest wars of world war one
- Lasted for about 5 months and the british and the french armies fought the germans
- The goal of this battle was to weaken the german army and to help the french army fighting at/in Verdun, France which was one of the largest and longest battles in WW1
- This war was faught in northern France on a 15 mile front
One negative effect of this was was millions of people lost their lives during those 5 months (More than one million people were killed).