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16-531: Somme or The Somme may refer to: Places [ edit ] Somme (department) , a department of France Somme, Queensland , Australia Canal de la Somme , a canal in France Somme (river) , a river in France Arts, entertainment, and media [ edit ] Somme (book) , a First World War military history book The Somme (film) ,

32-485: A 1927 British documentary film The Somme – From Defeat to Victory , BBC TV documentary Military [ edit ] French tanker Somme , a French Navy tanker and command ship HMS Somme (1918) , a British World War I S-class destroyer Battle of the Somme Somme American Cemetery and Memorial Somme Heritage Centre See also [ edit ] Battle of

48-475: A population of 829,419 in 2019. Oise is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the province of Île-de-France and Picardy . After the coalition victory at Waterloo , the department was occupied by British troops between June 1815 and November 1818. In March 2021, local Member of Parliament Olivier Dassault

64-498: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Somme (department) The north central area of the Somme was the site of a series of battles during World War I , including the particularly significant Battle of the Somme in 1916. As a result of this and other battles fought in the area, the department is home to many military cemeteries and several major monuments commemorating

80-688: The Central Powers in 1916. However, before these offensives could begin, the Germans attacked first, engaging the Allies at the Battle of Verdun . As this battle dragged on, the purpose of the Somme campaign (which was still in the planning stage) shifted from striking a decisive blow against Germany to drawing German forces away from Verdun and relieving the Allied forces there. By its end, the losses on

96-522: The departmental council is Stéphane Haussoulier, elected in July 2021. Oise Oise ( / w ɑː z / wahz ; French: [waz] ; Picard : Oése ) is a department in the north of France . It is named after the river Oise . Inhabitants of the department are called Oisiens ( French: [wazjɛ̃] ) or Isariens , after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had

112-658: The Departmental Council is Nadège Lefebvre, elected in 2017. The major tourist attraction of the department is the Parc Astérix , which opened in 1989. Other interesting sites are Beauvais Cathedral , the Château de Pierrefonds , restored by Viollet-le-Duc , and the art collection of the Château de Chantilly , which is one of the largest outside Paris. Oise is twinned with Bedfordshire in England . It

128-544: The Somme (disambiguation) for other uses Somma (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Somme . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Somme&oldid=1044891102 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

144-588: The Somme became the site of the Battle of Albert . The battle was a five-day engagement between 25 and 29 September, with the French Tenth Army attacking at Albert and pushing toward Bapaume , and the German Sixth Army counter-attacking back towards Albert. The line settled around the town of Thiepval and remained there until July 1916, when the Battle of the Somme was fought on and around

160-522: The Somme had exceeded those at Verdun. While Verdun would bite deep in the national consciousness of France for generations, the Somme would have the same effect on generations of Britons. The battle is best remembered for its first day, 1 July 1916, on which the British suffered 57,420 casualties, including 19,240 dead—the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army to this day. As terrible as

176-510: The Somme offensive of 1916". For the first time, the home front in Britain was exposed to the horrors of modern war with the release of the propaganda film The Battle of the Somme , which used actual footage from the first days of the battle. The Somme experienced war twice more in the First and Second Battles of the Somme of 1918. Population development since 1801: The president of

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192-532: The battle was for the British Empire troops who suffered there, it naturally affected the other nationalities as well. By the end of the battle, the British had learned many lessons in modern warfare, while the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses. British historian Sir James Edmonds stated, "It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final victory on the Western Front were laid by

208-516: The many soldiers from various countries who died on its battlefields . The 1346 Battle of Crécy , a major English victory early in the Hundred Years' War , also took place in this department. The toponymy of Somme is speculated to come from a Gaulish term, Sumena . The Somme department is in the current region of Hauts-de-France and is surrounded by the departments of Pas-de-Calais , Nord , Aisne , Oise and Seine-Maritime . In

224-789: The northwest, it has a coast on the English Channel . The main rivers are the Somme and its tributaries ( Avre , Ancre and Noye , the Authie ) as well as the Bresle . The most populous commune is Amiens , the prefecture. As of 2019 , there are 9 communes with more than 5,000 inhabitants: At the beginning of the First World War , during the Race to the Sea of September and November 1914,

240-518: The same ground. The Battle of the Somme was one of the most costly battles of World War I, by the number of troop casualties, as Allied forces attempted to break through the German lines along a 40 kilometres (25 mi) front north and south of the River Somme . The Allies had originally intended the Somme to be the site of one of several simultaneous major offensives by Allied powers against

256-436: Was killed in a plane crash. Oise is part of the current region of Hauts-de-France and is situated 35 km north of Paris . It is surrounded by the departments of Somme , Aisne , Seine-et-Marne , Val-d'Oise , Eure , and Seine-Maritime . The most populous commune is Beauvais , the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 13 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants. The 10 most populous communes are: The president of

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