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. ener's Army, and consequently lacked the accuracy of the more experienced regulars. The f all this was that despite seven days of the heaviest bombardment yet seen in the war, the artillery had achieved nothing like total success. `The inflexibility of the British plan was perhaps its greatest weakness. It was assumed that the great bombardment would work, since, according to the generals, nothing could have survived the week of continuous attack by the artillery. Consequently, there was no contingency plan to fall back on should (as indeed happened) the bombardment be unsuccessful. The official instruction issued by Haig to Rawlinson was to continue the bombardment if necessary until it had achieved its objectives.
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