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(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...

At the start of World War ... trenches, aiming to destroy their defences. British miners had also tunnelled under no man’s land and set huge explosives to detonate on the morning of 1 July ...

was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916, the British forces suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 fatalities.