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Trench warfare had become largely obsolete in conflicts between advanced armies by the start of the Second World War.
Trench warfare dominated strategy on the Western Front, and the use of chemical and poison gases added to the devastation.
The land war quickly became dominated by the muddy, bloody stalemate of Trench warfare, a form of war in which both opposing armies had static lines of defense.
* Trench knife: Purpose-made or improvised knives, intended for close-quarter fighting, particularly in trench warfare characterized by a d-shaped integral hand guard.
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Warfare in the early 20th century ( 19141918 ) Clockwise from top: front line Trench warfare | Trenches, a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British Mark I ( tank ) | Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible ( 1898 ) | HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a Naval mine | mine at the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign | battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas mask s, and German Albatros D. III biplane s.
Trench warfare often turned to a stalemate, only broken by a large loss of life, because in order to attack an enemy entrenchment soldiers had to run through an exposed " no man's land " under heavy fire from an entrenched enemy.
Trench warfare and tactics evolved further in the Crimean War and World War I, until systems of extensive main trenches, backup trenches ( in case the first lines were overrun ) and communication trenches often stretched dozens of kilometres along a front without interruption, and some kilometres further back from the front line.
Trench warfare is a form of occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
Trench warfare occurred when a military revolution in firepower was not matched by similar advances in mobility, resulting in a grueling form of warfare in which the defense held the advantage.
Trench warfare has been infrequent since the end of World War I.
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The main defensive works-a series of forts and Trench warfare | entrenchments-were located in the northwest of the county in and around the Dutch town of Brookland.
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* Trench warfare in the American Civil War, notably the Siege of Petersburg
* Trench warfare in World War I, including the Battle of the Somme ( 1916 ), the Battle of Verdun and many others
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The most common type of brick kiln in use there are Bull's Trench Kiln ( BTK ), based on a design developed by British engineer W. Bull in the late 19th century.
The lowest known point on Earth — the Mariana Trench — lies 10, 911 metres ( 35, 797 ft or 5, 966 fathoms ) below sea level.
Volcanism on Santorini is due to the Hellenic Trench subduction zone southwest of Crete.
** Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend into the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste, reaching the depth of 10, 911 meters ( 35, 797 feet ) and become the first human beings to reach the lowest spot on Earth.
After five weeks of attacking, the Canadian 4th Division finally took the formidable Regina Trench north of Courcelette on 11 November, and Desire Trench 400 yards beyond a week later.
Trench raiding involved making small-scale surprise attacks on enemy positions, often in the middle of the night for reasons of stealth.
Air Commodore Lukis, Air Officer Commanding, North East Area, reported on 28 May 1942, that Pilot Officer Trench, RAAF had inspected the countryside near Portland Roads ( also known as Weymouth Bay ), with Colonel Mills and Captain Herman G. Cox of the USAAF.
:... the true role of infantry was not to expend itself upon heroic physical effort, not to wither away under merciless machine-gun fire, not to impale itself on hostile bayonets, nor to tear itself to pieces in hostile entanglements —( I am thinking of Pozières and Stormy Trench and Bullecourt, and other bloody fields )— but on the contrary, to advance under the maximum possible protection of the maximum possible array of mechanical resources, in the form of guns, machine-guns, tanks, mortars and aeroplanes ; to advance with as little impediment as possible ; to be relieved as far as possible of the obligation to fight their way forward ; to march, resolutely, regardless of the din and tumult of battle, to the appointed goal ; and there to hold and defend the territory gained ; and to gather in the form of prisoners, guns and stores, the fruits of victory.
Stamos performed on a Marianas Trench song, recorded on the album Masterpiece Theatre.
It is the easternmost territory belonging to Japan, and the only Japanese territory on the Pacific Plate, past the Japan Trench.
* 1 quadrillion m³ — volume of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which contains the deepest point on the Earth's surface
Frances Mary Trench, daughter of Francis Trench and Mary Mason, on 1 June 1832.
Another prominent feature of the Philippine Sea is the presence of deep sea trenches, among them the Philippine Trench and the Mariana Trench, containing the deepest point on the planet.
The system would involve building massive dams on the Liard, Mackenzie, Peace, Columbia, and Fraser rivers, then pumping water into a long reservoir in the Rocky Mountain Trench.
It is located on the eastern side of Luzon, near the Philippine Trench which is the convergent boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate is driven under the Philippine Mobile Belt.
A police box outside Earl's Court tube station in London, built in 1997 and based on the 1929 Mackenzie Trench design.
The Civil Defence & Emergency Service Preservation Trust now manage eleven of the UK's last " Gilbert Mackenzie Trench " Police Signal Boxes on behalf of a private collector.
In 1997, a new police box based on the Mackenzie Trench design was erected outside the Earl's Court tube station in London, equipped with CCTV cameras and a telephone to contact police.

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