Somme, Battle of the
- a major battle of the First World War between the British and the Germans, on the Western Front in northern France July-November 1916. More than a million men on both sides were killed or wounded.索姆河战役(第一次世界大战中英国与德国之间的一次重大战役, 于1916年7月至11月在法国北部西线展开, 双方伤亡人数超过100万)。