The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Cambrai sector lay south of the Arras battlefield on ground as yet unravaged by shellfire . The region was one of downland and open fields , interspersed with woods and copses , the ground firm and dry , and only lightly held by the ...
... Cambrai sector lay south of the Arras battlefield on ground as yet unravaged by shellfire . The region was one of downland and open fields , interspersed with woods and copses , the ground firm and dry , and only lightly held by the ...
Page 411
... Cambrai . Then the attack would swing north , across the Bapaume - Cambrai road , to take the Bourlon Ridge . Finally , while the Cavalry Corps exploited south and east of Cambrai , the rest of the force , supported by V Corps , the ...
... Cambrai . Then the attack would swing north , across the Bapaume - Cambrai road , to take the Bourlon Ridge . Finally , while the Cavalry Corps exploited south and east of Cambrai , the rest of the force , supported by V Corps , the ...
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... Cambrai , in which the tanks were supposed to dominate the battlefield , demonstrated that armour needs infantry support . After Cambrai , the British tanks and infantry operated as mutually supporting arms . Byng decided on a setpiece ...
... Cambrai , in which the tanks were supposed to dominate the battlefield , demonstrated that armour needs infantry support . After Cambrai , the British tanks and infantry operated as mutually supporting arms . Byng decided on a setpiece ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE BACKGROUND TO THE WAR 18711914 | 8 |
THE TURN OF THE TIDE AND THE HUNDRED DAYS JuneNovember 1918 483 | 22 |
Copyright | |
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advance Allenby Allied ammunition Arras artillery assault attack Aubers Ridge August Australian barrage Bassée battalions battle battlefield began Belgian bombardment Bourlon Brigade British Army British line Byng Cambrai Canadian Corps Canal casualties Cateau cavalry Cavalry Corps Cavalry Division counter-attack creeping barrage east enemy Field Marshal French Fifth Army fighting Flesquières Foch force forward Fourth Army France French Army front line front-line German Army German defences German line Gough ground Haig Haig's heavy guns Hindenburg Line II Corps infantry Joffre Kitchener La Bassée La Boisselle Lanrezac Le Cateau Lieutenant-General Lloyd George Loos losses Major-General Messines miles military move Neuve Chapelle Nivelle offensive officers ordered Passchendaele Plumer push Rawlinson Regiment reserves rifle Salient Schlieffen Plan Second Army sent shells Smith-Dorrien soldiers Somme staff strongpoints tactics tanks Third Army took troops village Vimy Ridge Western Front wire Wood wounded yards Ypres