Battle of Cambrai (1917)
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The Battle of Cambrai was a British attack in the First World War, followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force since 1914. The town of Cambrai, in the départe
German soldiers recovering a British Mark IV tank
Cambrai area, 1917
Cambrai salient north, 1917
The bridge at Masnières, collapsed by the weight of a Mark IV tank
Cambrai
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Cambrai, formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally a
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
…attack in the First World War, followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) since 1914. The town of Cambrai, in the département of Nord, in France, was an important supply centre for the German Siegfriedstellung (known to the British as the Hindenburg Line…
![The bell tower of the Hôtel de Ville (town hall), where Martin and Martine [fr] mark the hours](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/H%C3%B4tel_de_ville_de_Cambrai_%2818387%29.jpg/500px-H%C3%B4tel_de_ville_de_Cambrai_%2818387%29.jpg)
The bell tower of the Hôtel de Ville (town hall), where Martin and Martine [fr] mark the hours
An extract from the Peutinger table showing Camaraco (Cambrai) northeast of Sammarobriva (present-day Amiens)
The belfry of Cambrai, the old bell tower of the Church of Saint Martin, symbol of communal freedoms
Dufay (left) in conversation with Gilles Binchois