{"id":81769,"date":"2023-04-29T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=81769"},"modified":"2023-04-28T17:05:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T21:05:41","slug":"what-was-the-deadliest-day-of-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/04\/29\/what-was-the-deadliest-day-of-the-first-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was the Deadliest Day of the First World War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LJ20568KVmk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 28 Apr 2023<\/p>\n<p>What was the deadliest day of any nation in WW1? There are multiple candidates for that, but why should we even care? Well, the answer to this question highlights a challenge with popular memory that is often focused on the biggest battles of the war like the Somme or Verdun.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Watch Red Atoms on Nebula: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjA4ZmZiaThiM2w1SEVMczJqMHZndWFrY29Zd3xBQ3Jtc0tuZEk2N0hFREo1YU5hR1k2bW1va0hneVBYOVpNV0R2WnI2OGxhY2FxNE9SeGNvUzVWaWFkdnJUSmZMVEd5VmVSYUJZX1VvM1BDQ3h5cE1hM2FnUGpkTEF1SkQ0eC1RTlRKYnlfbmlnX0dkZ3J0S2Vpdw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.nebula.tv%2Fredatoms%3Fref%3Dthe-great-war&#038;v=LJ20568KVmk\">https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/redatoms?ref=the&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT THE CHANNEL<br \/>\nPatreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/realtimehistory<\/a><br \/>\nNebula: <a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/the-great-war\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/the-great-war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nJeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\nArthur, John. <em>The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry. (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of war Service, 1914-1918<\/em>. David Clarke, Glasgow, 1920.  <\/p>\n<p>Desaubliaux, Robert,\u202f<em>La ru\u00e9e, journal d&#8217;un poilu<\/em>. Paris, \u00e9ditions des Presses de la Renaissance, 2005 (premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition 1919). <\/p>\n<p>Doughty, Robert A. <em>Pyrrhic Victory<\/em>. Harvard University Press. Kindle Edition. <\/p>\n<p>Duclos, Jean, and Louis-Jean Duclos. 2012.\u202f<em>Notes de campagne, 1914-1916: suivies d&#8217;un e\u0301pilogue, 1917-1925, et commente\u0301es par son fils, Louis-Jean Duclos<\/em>. Paris: Harmattan. <\/p>\n<p>Greenhalgh, Elizabeth. <em>The French Army and the First World War (Armies of the Great War)<\/em> Cambridge University Press. 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