Major conflict1916
Battle of the Somme
France
Estimated casualties
300K – 350Kestimated dead
HEADLINE310K — the single figure used on the map
deaths only (British ~130k, French ~50k, German ~160k); total casualties incl. wounded ~1.0-1.2M
SOURCEr14 editorial review
Deadliest battle in human history with over 1 million casualties in failed offensive tactics.
Belligerents3
- United Kingdom
- France
- Germany
ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1900)German Empire
Conflict graph
PART OFWorld War I
SUB-CONFLICTS · 1
Sources
- HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
- Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Battle of the Somme (1916). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-somme · Sources & methodology