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
Western Front (World War I)
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The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, the
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
…Battle of Cambrai (1917) Part of the Western Front of the First World War German soldiers recovering a British Mark IV tank Date 20 November – 7 December 1917; 2 weeks and 3 days Location Southwest of…
Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker; A German Gotha G.IV heavy bomber; American troops with Renault FT tanks moving in the Argonne Forest to the front line during the
A 1913 French bayonet charge
The German infantry on the battlefield on 7 August 1914
A German trench on the Western Front in 1915