Battle of the Somme (disambiguation)
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Battle of the Somme commonly refers to the major Anglo-French offensive in 1916 during World War I. However, the postwar Battles Nomenclature Committee divided this campaign into a series of battles (listed in the article above). According to official nomenclature, two other offensives during the last year of World War I, 1918, also use this name:
- the First Battle of the Somme (1918), the British name for the German offensive codenamed Operation Michael;
- the Second Battle of the Somme (1918), the second phase of the final British offensive of the war (the "Hundred Days" offensive).
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