The Ancre Front:--The Germans retire before the British on an eleven-mile front: Le Barque is captured.
The French advance on a four-mile front north of the Somme.
The French and British advance on an eighty-mile front, the British towards Cambrai and St. Quentin, the French towards La Fère and Laon.
Two days later the Austrians opened their offensive on a forty-mile front, having the better of the conflict until September 11, especially on the southern wing near Lemberg.
And here they halted, and the united forces proceeded to dig a trench on a ten-mile front, extending from north to south, through the town and clear across the Jadar Valley.
This northern battle began in a much smaller way than the original offensive, with about twenty divisions on a twenty-mile front, and it may have been its initial success that determined its prompt extension.
On the 29th the French counterattacked and recovered eight square miles between Lassigny and Noyon, but west of this position the enemy, on a twelve-mile front with a penetration of seven miles, enveloped Montdidier.
Haig regarded the capture of Valenciennes as an essential preliminary, and on 1-2 November corps of the First and Third armies attacked a six-mile front to the south of the town.
He forced the Aisne the next day on an eighteen-mile front, and on May 31 he brought up at the Marne on a six-mile front, having made a penetration of thirty miles to the south.
All the British gained in this costly operation was about a mile of territory on a three-mile front.
In the Ypres-Dixmude sector Germans attacked on mile front; English counterattacked.
Beginning of "Big Drive" on 50-mile front, from Arras to La Fere.
It reads as follows: Three weeks ago today the enemy began his terrific attacks against us on a fifty-mile front.
This was in the south, and was preceded by the most elaborate preparations over a forty-mile front.
They were advancing on a forty-mile front and on May 28th had reached the Aisne, with the French and British steadily falling back.
They were forced to retire along a fifteen-mile front to the Ailette River, the prelude, perhaps, to the fall of Laon and La Fere.
On May 14 the Germans, after an intense local bombardment, delivered a spirited attack on a mile front of the British southwest of Morlancourt, gaining a footing in their first trenches.
More than two thousand pieces are raining on a twenty-five-mile front projectiles of all calibers.
It is on the right of the sixty-mile front occupied by the advancing army of General Lechitsky.
It is not difficult to spot shells when only a few batteries are firing, but when perhaps a hundred guns are dropping shells on a half-mile front of trench, a highly trained eye is required.
Foiled in this direction, the next attack was delivered against the five-mile front.
An assault by the kaiser's troops under General von Einem was made on a five-mile front east of Tahure, with the center about at Maisons de Champagne Farm, close to the Butte de Mesnil.
The battle then raged over a fifteen-mile front, desperate efforts being made by the Germans to regain all the ground taken by the British west and south of Cambrai.
This victory placed them astride the Ypres-Commines canal, having advanced three miles on an eight-mile front.
With the news from the right of the six-mile front that of a continuing fierce struggle, word from the left had the definite note of success.
Here they had emplaced machine guns manned by chosen desperate men which had given the British charge its worst experience over a mile front.
In the grim preliminary business of piecemeal gains which should make possible an operation over a six-mile front on Sept.
On the 4th, Franco-American troops crossed the Vesle along an eighteen-mile front, advancing on an average about two and a half miles to the north.
On the 8th, the Americans repulsed a violent attack extending from Belleau Wood to Le Thiolet, along a two-mile front.
Many parts of the German defences along the 7-mile front, however, were far from obliterated when the infantry advanced to the attack, especially on the left, where the 2nd Division was held up by impassable wire defences.
Altogether seven British divisions were involved in this hard-fought battle, the net result of which was to bring the Germans 2 miles nearer to Ypres on a 5-mile front, and to give the Allies a worse line to hold.
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