Warfare
Mine (tunneling)
An underground gallery dug beneath the enemy's trenches and packed with explosive. At Messines on 7 June 1917 the British detonated 19 mines almost simultaneously, in one of the largest planned explosions in history until then.
Mentioned in
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §5 Messines and Passchendaele
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §3 No Man's Land: Patrols, Raids and Wiring Parties
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §5 Mining and Tunnelling: The War Beneath