Game | Valiant Hearts

• The event launched Europe into an armed conflict that took on a global dimension.

battalion = battalion headquarters + 4 companies
company = 4 platoon
platoon = 4 sections
section = 12 men + NCO(non-commissioned officer)

• conscription 征召入伍
• voluntary enlistment 志愿兵

dispatch its army in situ

• retreat en masses
• units were outflanked and repelled, taken prisoner or killed
• The months of August to September 1914 marked the bloodiest period of the war.

• squadron

• swiftly overrun France via Belgium
• halt the German advance

• indelible image of the great wall 难以磨灭的

• diseases flourished

• detonate /ˈdɛtəˌneɪt/

• hecatomb
• heavy casualties

items

• tinder 火绒；易燃物
• saltperter = KNO3
• wick 灯芯

• loud speaker

• biro 圆珠笔
• nib 钢笔头

• sat-nav 卫星导航（satellite navigation）
• use the compass to gain bearings

• POW, prison of war 战俘

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• Patience was not one of Anna's strong suits. 特长
  

mess tin 军用饭盒 lice 虱子复数 tallow 动物油脂 latrine 厕所 image.png