Was the Battle of the Somme a failure for the British army?
For a lot of people the Battle of the Somme was considered a failure purely because of the amount of British soldiers lost per day. On the first day Britain had over 57,470 casualties along with 19,240 killed. But if you look at the battle in a tacticians perspective the battle was a major success that led to the Germans downfall. First of all Britain learnt from their mistakes and started placing commanders in to the front line so that they could easily and quickly give out new commands (Before it could take them 11 hours to find out what was going on and then to issue a command, because they were miles behind the front line). They also realised that when they attacked early in the morning how ever much of land they gained by midday Germany could have the rest of the day to counter Attack and take back the land that they had lost. Second of all because Britain was losing the battle they decided to take a big risk by using the TANK for the first ever time in history! This was aa great
