This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... BLANC MONT. OPERAT1ONS OF THE 2D AND 36TH DIVISIONS WITH THE FOURTH FRENCH ARMY IN CHAMPAGNE IN OCTOBER, 1918. Map,0-.'oiio heroVith; tor greater detail see Tahure, Attigny and Stc. Uarie sheets, !, . The Blanc Mont operation is classed by the Americans as a part of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, but in a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... BLANC MONT. OPERAT1ONS OF THE 2D AND 36TH DIVISIONS WITH THE FOURTH FRENCH ARMY IN CHAMPAGNE IN OCTOBER, 1918. Map,0-.'oiio heroVith; tor greater detail see Tahure, Attigny and Stc. Uarie sheets, !, . The Blanc Mont operation is classed by the Americans as a part of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, but in a broader sense it was a part of the general offensive that extended along the entire front of the Allied Armies between Switzerland and the English Channel. All of the armies were engaged in a converging attack--the British toward Cambrai. the French east and west of Beims toward the Aisne, and the Americans toward Sedan and Mezieres. The result of these operations, if successful, would be to clear the Germans from France and Belgium, prevent the withdrawal of a large part of them into Germany, and also prevent the removal of the supplies accumulated in Belgium. This would be effected by the cutting of the Carignan-Sedan-Mezieres railway system, and the cutting or threatening of the northern system through Liege. The reduction of the St. Mihiel salient was preliminary to the main operation, which commenced on September 20. In the main operation the First American Army advanced in and east of the Argonne forest. The Fourth French Army, in whose sector the Blanc Mont operation occurred, advanced west of the forest. Thus a successful advance by both armies would lessen German resistance in the difficult country covered by the woods. When the Germans were thrown back in the first battle of the Marne in 1914, the line stabilized in Champagne about halfway between Souain (5 kilometers north of Suippes) and Somme-Py. It passed through Navarin Farm and it was in this vicinity that the 21st Corps of the Fourth French Army attacked when...
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