Category: History - British

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

The general position--German attack of July 16--French counter-attack of July 18--Turn of the tide--Fifty-first and Sixty-second Divisions on the Ardres--Desperate fighting--The Fifteenth Scots Division at Buzancy--Le Glorieux Chardon d'Écosse--Nicholson's Thirty-fourth Divisi...

Chapters

17. CHAPTER IV

Advance of Shute's Fifth Corps--Great feat in crossing the Ancre--Across the old battlefield--Final position of Fifth Corps opposite Hindenburg's Main Line--Advance of Haldane's...

16. CHAPTER III

Further advance of the Australians--Of the Third Corps--Capture of Albert--Advance across the old Somme battlefield--Capture of Mont St. Quentin--Splendid Australian exploit--Fa...

19. CHAPTER VI

The first American operations--The rupture of the Hindenburg Line--Predicament of Twenty-Seventh American Division--Their gallant resistance--Great Australian attack--Remarkable...

25. CHAPTER XII

Before entering into the terms of the Armistice it may be instructive to give some short outline of the course of events at the German Headquarters which led to so sudden and dr...

22. CHAPTER IX

The battle of the Selle River--Reversion to open warfare--The valour of Lancashire--Haig's incessant blows--Weakening of the German morale--The battle of Mormal Forest--New Zeal...

23. CHAPTER X

On September 27 the Canadian Corps, with the Eleventh British Division, attacked once more, the advance joining the left flank of that huge movement in which the First, Third, a...

20. CHAPTER VII

Attack upon the line of the Selle River--Stubborn work by the Second American Corps--Success of the Ninth Corps--Hard fighting at Le Cateau--Great feat of the South Africans--Co...

21. CHAPTER VIII

Having for the sake of continuous narrative carried the Fourth Army to the end of its labours, we shall now return to the Third Army, which we last saw on September 18 and follo...

15. CHAPTER II

In the tremendous and decisive operations which we are now about to examine, it is very necessary to have some fixed scheme in the method of description lest the reader be inext...

13. CHAPTER I

The general position--German attack of July 16--French counter-attack of July 18--Turn of the tide--Fifty-first and Sixty-second Divisions on the Ardres--Desperate fighting--The...

24. CHAPTER XI

King Albert in the field--Great Belgo-Franco-British advance--The last act on the old stage--The prophet of 1915--Renewed advance--Germans desert the coast--Relief of Douai and...

18. CHAPTER V

On August 8 Rawlinson had attacked on the south with the Fourth Army. On August 22 Byng followed on his left with the Third Army. Four days later Horne took it up in turn south...

14. mill. The 101st surmounted the ridge between Grand Rozoy and

In the early afternoon the 102nd Brigade advanced from the wood in which it lay with the intention of helping the 101st to storm Beugneux, but as it came forward it met the 101s...

12. CHAPTER XII

4. CHAPTER IV

Advance of Shute's Fifth Corps--Great feat in crossing the Ancre--Across the old battlefield--Final position of Fifth Corps opposite Hindenburg's Main Line--Advance of Haldane's...

6. CHAPTER VI

The first American operations--The rupture of the Hindenburg Line--Predicament of Twenty-seventh American Division--Their gallant resistance--Great Australian attack--Remarkable...

3. CHAPTER III

Further advance of the Australians--Of the Third Corps--Capture of Albert--Advance across the old Somme battlefield--Capture of Mont St. Quentin--Splendid Australian exploit--Fa...

7. CHAPTER VII

Attack upon the line of the Selle River--Stubborn work by the Second American Corps--Success of the Ninth Corps--Hard fighting at Le Cateau--Great feat of the South Africans--Co...

9. CHAPTER IX

The battle of the Selle River--Reversion to open warfare--The valour of Lancashire--Haig's incessant blows--Weakening of the German morale--The battle of Mormal Forest--New Zeal...

8. CHAPTER VIII

1. CHAPTER I

The general position--German attack of July 16--French counter-attack of July 18--Turn of the tide--Fifty-first and Sixty-second Divisions on the Ardres--Desperate fighting--The...

11. CHAPTER XI

King Albert in the field--Great Belgo-Franco-British advance--The last act on the old stage--The prophet of 1915--Renewed advance--Germans desert the coast--Relief of Douai and...

5. CHAPTER V

10. CHAPTER X

2. CHAPTER II