⚫️It was the worst day in the history of British Warfare.

⚫️Suffered around 60,000 casualties including 20,000 dead on the first day of battle.

⚫️Despite the casualties, the allies continued to attack.

⚫️On November 18, 1916, Haig finally called off the offensive, insisting in his official dispatch from the front that December that the Somme operation had achieved its objectives.

The Battle