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At the beginning of August 1916, three French and one British division with 45,000 men and 400 guns launched an offensive against the Bulgarian positions at Lake Dojran, defended by the 2nd Thracian Infantry Division.
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The Battle of Doiran was a 1917 battle between the United Kingdom and Bulgaria during World War I. The battle ended in decisive Bulgarian victory, leading to 16 months of silence on the front before the Third Battle of Doiran .
The Bulgarian Army which was stretched on a 350 km front with all its forced arrayed in a single line had little reserves to prevent a breakthrough at the Battle of Dobro Pole. General Nerezov's First Army was attacked by the British and Greeks at the Battle of Doiran. The fighting was hard but unlike other sectors of the front the Bulgarian ...
The Doiran sector had previously been subject to two major Entente offensives known as the First Battle of Doiran (August 1916) and Second Battle of Doiran (April–May 1917). Both engagements ended in decisive Bulgarian victories, forcing the Allies to limit their operations to small raids and harassing fire.
The Battle of Doiran may refer to several battles that occurred near Lake Doiran in present-day Macedonia: Battle of Doiran (1913), during the Second Balkan War; Battle of Doiran (1916), during World War I; Battle of Doiran (1917), during World War I; Battle of Doiran (1918), during World War I
In August 26th Division moved up to the Lake Doiran sector of the front. 79th Brigade was not directly engaged when 78th Bde captured Horseshoe Hill (part of the First Battle of Doiran) on 17 August. Afterwards the British west of Lake Doiran conducted a holding operation for the rest of the year, with numerous raids to pin down the Bulgarians ...