The British Campaign in France and Flanders—January to July, 1918

CHAPTER IV

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THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME

Attack on the Fifth Army. March 21

The Fifth Army front--The story of a Redoubt--Attack upon Congreve's Seventh Corps--Upon Watts' Nineteenth Corps--Upon Maxse's Eighteenth Corps--Upon Butler's Third Corps--Terrific pressure--Beginning of the Retreat--Losses of Guns