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The Battle of Soissons (1918) (also known as the Battle of the Soissonnais and of the Ourcq (French: Bataille du Soissoinais et de L'Ourcq) [a]) was fought on the Western Front during World War I. Waged from 18 to 22 July 1918 between the French (with American and British assistance) and the German armies, the battle was part of the much larger ...
[10] [3] On July 19, 1918, at the Battle of Soissons, [10] most of Cates' company along with the 2nd Battalion was annihilated. The enemy artillery was so intense that Cates lost most of his britches in an explosion that nearly cost him his life.
26 June – Battle of Belleau Wood ends in Allied victory. 15 July – The Second Battle of the Marne begins, the last major German offensive on the Western Front. [2] 18 July-22 July – The Battle of Soissons is fought between the French (with American assistance) and German armies. [3] 5 August – Second Battle of the Marne ends with Allied ...
Second Battle of the Marne; Battle of Soissons (1918) Battle of Château-Thierry (1918) Hundred Days Offensive. Battle of Amiens; Second Battle of the Somme, also known as the Battle of St. Quentin; Battle of Albert (1918) Battle of the Scarpe (1918) Battle of Havrincourt; Battle of Saint-Mihiel; Battle of Epéhy; Battle of the Canal du Nord ...
The Soissons Memorial is a World War I memorial located in the town of Soissons, in the Aisne département of France.The memorial lists 3,887 names of British soldiers with no known grave who were killed in the area from May to August 1918 during the German spring offensive.
The German spring offensive, also known as Kaiserschlacht ("Kaiser's Battle") or the Ludendorff offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during the First World War, beginning on 21 March 1918.
At the end of May 1918, the Imperial German Army's attempt to strike for Paris in the Third Battle of the Aisne swept over Soissons and its hinterland, including Buzancy. . Eventually checked by the resistance of various Allied forces, the advance nevertheless left a threatening salient between Soissons and Rhei
Battle of Soissons (1918), World War I, between French-American and German troops Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Battle of Soissons .