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Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917) (詳細はmines dug by tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers under the German 4th Army (General Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin) lines near the village of Mesen (''Messines'' in French, historically used in English) in Belgian West Flanders during the First World War. The mines were detonated at the start of the Battle of Messines , creating craters. The joint explosion of the mines at Messines ranks among the largest non-nuclear explosions of all time. The evening before the attack, General Sir Charles Harington, Chief of Staff of the Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), remarked to the press, "Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography". The Battle of Messines marked the zenith of mine warfare. On 10 August 1917, the Royal Engineers fired the last British deep mine of the war, at Givenchy-en-Gohelle near Arras. ==Background==
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