October 11, 1918

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1918, Argonne, Battle of the Hindenburg Line, Cambrai, Champagne, Chemin-des-Dames, Drocourt, evacuation, Final Advance in Artois, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hindenburg Line, Hundred Days Offensive, Laon, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Queant, retreat, Scarpe, Soissons, St Aubert, Suippe

German retreat on front between Soissons-Laon road and Grand-Pré, evacuating Chemin des Dames, the Suippe, and the main pass through the Argonne. In Champagne on a 37-mile front French penetrate in places to a depth of over six miles. East of Cambrai British win high ground at St. Aubert; north of the Scarpe they advance through the northern stretch of the Drocourt-Quéant line.

September 3, 1918

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1918, Baralle, Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line, Charles Fergusson, Drocourt, England, evacuation, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hundred Days Offensive, Inchy, Lecluse, Lens, Moeuvres, Peronne, prisoners of war, Prouville, Queant, Royal Navy, Rumancourt, Scotland, Second Battle of the Somme, Somme

Fall of Drocourt; English, Scottish, and Naval troops under General Fergusson smash through defences of Quéant and Prouville and advance on Inchy and Mœuvres; later Baralle, Rumancourt, and Lécluse, behind the Drocourt-Quéant line, taken. South of Péronne French cross the Somme; 1,400 prisoners. Lens evacuated by the Germans.

September 2, 1918

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1918, Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line, British Empire, Cagnicourt, Canada, Charles Mangin, Czechoslovak Legion, Czechoslovakia, Dury, Etaing, France, Germany, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Henry Horne, Hundred Days Offensive, Le Transloy, Neuilly, prisoners of war, Queant, Russia, Russian Civil War, Second Battle of Arras, Siberia, St Pierre Vaast Wood, Terny Sorny, Villers

Drocourt-Quéant Line breached by Canadian troops of Horne‘s First Army on a front of six miles from Etaing to the neighbourhood of Quéant; Dury and subsequently Cagnicourt and Villers taken; Le Transloy and St. Pierre Vaast Wood captured; 10,000 prisoners. General Mangin takes Neuilly and Terny Sorny; junction effected between Czechs and Semenoff‘s Cossacks.

August 30, 1918

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1918, Bailleul, Battle of the Ailette, Battle of the Scarpe, British Army, British Empire, Bullecourt, Canada, Canal du Nord, Chevilly, Drocourt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Haucourt, Hendecourt, Hindenburg Line, Hundred Days Offensive, Lancashire, London, Mont St Simeon, Noyon, Peronne, Queant, Second Battle of Arras, Second Battle of Noyon, Second Battle of the Somme, Somme

Canadians take Haucourt, north of junction of Hindenburg and Quéant-Drocourt lines; just south London and West Lancashire troops take Bullecourt and Hendecourt, but lose them again. British cross the Somme south and west of Péronne; French cross Canal du Nord and enter Chevilly; they seize Mont St. Siméon, east of Noyon. British enter Bailleul.

December 12, 1917

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1917, Al-Midya, Battle of Jerusalem, bombardment, Budrus, Bullecourt, casualties, Edmund Allenby, England, France, Germany, Great Britain, HMS Partridge, HMS Pellew, Imperial German Navy, Jerusalem, Joppa, Madeira, merchant shipping, Midieh, North Sea, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Portugal, Queant, Royal Navy, Sheikh Obeid Rahid, sinking, submarine, Turkey, Tyne

Enemy attack on mile front between Bullecourt and Quéant; small British salient captured with about 500 yards of British November gains of 5,000 yards. General Allenby reports line advanced between Joppa and Jerusalem and Budrus and Sheikh Obeid Rahid, north of Midieh captured. Convoy of five neutral vessels and one British vessel with escort of two destroyers and four armed trawlers attacked by four German destroyers; H.M.S. Pellew disabled, H.M.S. Partridge and all the armed trawlers and merchant vessels sunk. Two steam trawlers and two neutral vessels sunk off the Tyne by German destroyers. Funchal, Madeira, shelled by German submarine. One of H.M. destroyers sunk after collision; two men drowned.

November 23, 1917

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1917, Battle of Cambrai, British Empire, Cambrai, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Moeuvres, Queant

Further advance west of Cambrai; Canadians gain an important spur between Mœuvres and Quéant.

May 7, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Australia, Battle of Arras, Battle of Bullecourt, British Empire, Bullecourt, civilian casualties, Cormicy, England, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hindenburg Line, Lens, London, Queant, Sapigneul, Second Battle of the Aisne, trenches

French extend their positions south of Sapigneul. Australians widen their hold on the section of Hindenburg switch line between Bullecourt and Quéant; German repulse near Lens. German aeroplane drops four bombs in North-East London; three casualties.

May 3, 1917

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1917, Arras, Battle of Arras, Battle of Bullecourt, British Empire, Bullecourt, Canada, casualties, Cherisy, France, Fresnoy, Germany, Great Britain, Hindenburg Line, prisoners of war, Queant, Scarpe, Third Battle of the Scarpe, trenches

Another Great Battle East of Arras on a 12-mile front; British win ground, especially on the wings. Fresnoy carried by Canadians and Hindenburg switch line penetrated near Quéant; Chérisy and Bullecourt entered, with great German losses and some few hundred prisoners; German counter-attacks win back a little ground south of the Scarpe and near Chérisy.

April 15, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Bapaume, Battle of Arras, Cambrai, France, Frederick Stanley Maude, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Jebel Hamrin, Lagnicourt, Ottoman Empire, peace, Queant, Russia, St Quentin, trenches, Turkey, Villeret

German counter-attack astride the Bapaume-Cambrai road before Quéant fails, except at Lagnicourt, where they gain a brief entry into the British trenches. Villeret, north-west of St. Quentin, taken. Turks, retreating before General Maude, reach Jebel Hamrin, whence they started on April 9. Austrian peace move; a statement amounting to an offer of a separate peace with Russia on the basis of old frontiers, made.