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The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, took place in northern France from the beginning of July to the 18th of November, 1916. It was fought by the combined armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire, and was the largest battle of the Western Front, as well as one of the bloodiest battles in human history.
World War I was a global war that lasted from 1914 to 1918, and originated in Europe. Contemporaneously described as 'the war to end all wars', it was one of the deadliest and largest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million deceased combatants and at least seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, to exclude the near 100 million deaths that occurred afterwards from disease outbreaks or resulting genocides.