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Title: The Great war
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, George Henry, 1876- Whitehead, Henry C., 1873- Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 McAndrew, James William, 1862-1922 Wiley, Edwin, 1872-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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a to Boesinghe. Sir Herbert Plumers Second British Army stretched southward to a point beyond Armentieres, and the First British Army under Sir Douglas Haig followed as far as Grenay west of Lens. d'Urbals Tenth French Army held the next section of the front to a point beyond Arras, whence the new Third British Army under Sir Charles Monroe extended to the Somme. Dubois lay between the Somme and the Oise, followed by the Fifth French Army under Franchet d'Espèrey along the Aisne and the Fourth under de Langle de Cary, later under Pétain, across Champagne. Humberts Third Army held the Verdun sector, while Dubail andMaud'huy stood in Lorraine and in the Vosges and Alsace respectively. The British had not far from 600,000 combatants in the field, while the French numbered about 2,000,000. The execution of the great offensive movement, which took place in September, 1915, was probably hastened by the critical situation of the Russian armies. The complete disruption of the German defensive system in the West
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Resumption of Offensive in the West 221 was probably not contemplated by the Allied commanders at this time. Their intentions were rather to breach the German lines at certain places, distract the German counsels, and conquer observing and supporting points which would contribute materially to the success of the eventual culminating effort. The chief part of the Allied plan was to crush in the defensive shell on opposite flanks of the rounding Germans alient in northern France by simultaneous blows delivered respectively in Artois and Champagne, where vital lines of communication ran just behind the hostile front. In this respect the offensive of September was significant as a revised edition of the aggressive operations of the spring and the pre-cursor of the mighty efforts of the subsequent campaigns. Minor attacks in Flanders and elsewhere served to divert the attention of the enemy and dissemble the location of the really important action. Preparations on what was then regarded as an unpre

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