Battle of the Sambre (1918)
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Battle of the Sambre (1918) | |
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Part of the River Sambre, France | |
Result | Allied victory |
United States
2nd Army
The Second Battle of the Sambre (4 November 1918) (which included the Second Battle of Guise (French: 2ème Bataille de Guise) and the Battle of Thiérache (French: Bataille de Thiérache) was part of the final European Allied offensives of World War I.[1]
Background
At the front, German resistance was falling away. Unprecedented numbers of prisoners were taken in the
At dawn on 4 November, 17 British divisions (including the 3rd and 4th Canadian Divisions of the Canadian Corps assigned to the British First Army) and 11 French divisions headed the attack. The Tank Corps, its resources badly stretched, could provide only 37 tanks for support.[1]
Battle
The first barrier to the northern attack was the 60–70-foot (18–21 m)-wide
Further north,
To the south, the French First Army attacked, capturing the communes of Guise (the Second Battle of Guise) and Origny-en-Thiérache (the Battle of Thiérache).
This resulted in a bridgehead almost 50 miles (80 km) long being made, to a depth of 2–3 miles (3–5 km).
From this point, the northern Allies advanced relentlessly, sometimes more than five miles a day, until the Armistice Line of 11 November from Ghent, through Hourain, Bauffe, Havré, to near Consoire, and Sivry .
References
- ^ a b c Defence, National (22 July 2019). "WWI - Sambre". www.canada.ca. Retrieved 7 March 2022.