Great Britain in WWI
..., and the Belgian King's appeal to Britain for assistance, Britain committed themselves to Belgium's defense. Like France, they where by extension also at war with Austria-Hungary. Great Brittan was one of the main resource providers for the troops in the Triple Entente. They were supplying weapons, ammo, rations, and, vehicles, to the troops on the field. They had also convinced Canadian Troops to support them. This would prove to provide a good help to the Triple Entente. They also supplied there heavily produced the Gabriel Voisin, which were the first planes to have cannons instead of machine guns onboard. In August 1914, Britain had around 247,432 stander units in action. About 120,000 of these were in the British Expeditionary Army and the rest were stationed abroad. In the end of january 1916 at least 2.6 million soldiers had volunteered ...