Battle of Fromelles
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The Attack at Fromelles (French pronunciation: [fʁɔmɛl] 19–20 July 1916, was a military operation on the Western Front during the First World War. The attack was carried out by British and Australian troops and was subsidiary to the Battle of the Somme. General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force had ordered the First Army and Second Army to prepare attacks to support the Fourth Army on the Somme, 50 mi to the south, to exploit any weakening of the German defences opposite. The attack took place 9.9 mi from Lille, between the Fauquissart–Trivelet road and Cordonnerie Farm, an area overlooked from Aubers Ridge to the south. The ground was low-lying and much of the defensive fortification by both sides consisted of building breastworks, rather than trenches.
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- musée de la bataille de Fromelles - museum in France
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| event | armed conflict | Battle of Lorette Hill | battle | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | Battle of Prémesques | battle | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | Siege of Menin | siege | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | 1054 | Siege of Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1128 | Siege of Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1213 | Sieges of Lille | sack, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1214 | Battle of Bouvines | Holy Roman Empire, Philip II of France, House of Welf, Kingdom of France, Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, County of Flanders, Kingdom of England, battle, Philip of Dreux, Renaud I, Count of Dammartin, Ferdinand of Portugal, Odo III, Duke of Burgundy, William IV, Count of Ponthieu, Henry the Courageous, Robert II, Count of Dreux, County of Boulogne | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1297 | Siege of Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1302 | Siege of Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1304 | Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1304 | Siege of Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1383 | Siege of Ypres | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1567 | Battle of Lannoy | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1646 | Siege of Lens | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1648 | Battle of Lens | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1658 | Siege of Ypres | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1667 | Siege of Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1678 | Siege of Ypres | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1708 | Siege of Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1792 | Siege de Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1793 | Battle of Lincelles | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1793 | Battle of Menin | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1794 | Battle of Mouscron | Kingdom of Great Britain, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1794 | Battle of Tourcoing | Kingdom of Great Britain, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1794 | Siege of Ypres | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Battle of La Bassée | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Siege of Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Battle of Messines | battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Battle of Armentières | battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | First Battle of Ypres | Belgium, German Empire, French Third Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | First Battle of Artois | German Empire, Erich von Falkenhayn, battle, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, French Third Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Joseph Joffre | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Battle of Givenchy | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Neuve Chapelle | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Hill 60 | British Empire, German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Arras | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Aubers Ridge | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Second Battle of Artois | German Empire, French Third Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Festubert | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Third Battle of Artois | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Loos | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Action of the Hohenzollern Redoubt | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Actions of the Bluff, 1916 | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Hohenzollern Redoubt | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Gas attack at Hulluch | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Mont Sorrel | battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of the Boar's Head | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Fromelles | German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Battle of Vimy Ridge | Canada, German Empire, battle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Battle of Messines | Australia, German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle, Dominion of New Zealand | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Capture of Westhoek | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Battle of Hill 70 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Battle of Polygon Wood | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Battle of Broodseinde | battle, Australia, German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Dominion of New Zealand | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Attack on the Polderhoek Spur | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1918 | Battle of the Lys | Canada, United States, Belgium, British Empire, French Third Republic, First Portuguese Republic, battle, German Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1940 | Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal | United Kingdom, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1940 | Siege of Lille | siege | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1907 | French conquest of Morocco | war | Wikidata |
| site | bunker | 7 personnel casemates | bunker | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station | bunker | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Kemmel command bunker | memorial, bunker, museum | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | 1661 | Château de Flers | château, art museum, castle | Wikidata |
| site | fort | Citadel of Lille | fort, citadel | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | City walls of Ieper | fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort de Mons | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort de Scarpe | destroyed building or structure, fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort de Seclin | military museum, fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort du Vert-Galant | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Saint-Sauveur | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Hohenzollern Redoubt | redoubt | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Cloth Hall, Ypres | cloth hall, military museum, belfry | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Fort de Bondues | military museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Historic center of cavalry and artillery at Fort de Seclin | military museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Musée des Canonniers (Lille) | military museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Notre Dame de Lorette Museum | military museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Sanctuary Wood Hill 62 | military museum, museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Verlaine Message Museum | military museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | 1998 | In Flanders Fields Museum | military museum, museum, documentation centre | Wikidata |
| site | tower | Tour des Dames | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| site | tower | Tour Saint-Ignace | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| commons | image | Allied dead at Fromelles, 1916 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Australian 53rd Bn Fromelles 19 July 1916 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Nach Gasangriff 1917 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Map of the Lille, La Bassée and Armentières areas, 1914 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Visitor Centre and Museum to the Battle of Fromelles | Commons | ||




