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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the evening, while on the left the FourthDivision stormed Etrepagny. Violent fighting went on allday west of the Bullecourt-Reincourt-Queant triangle, a mazeof interdependent trenches and tunnels which Billow hadbeen ordered to hold to the last. The battle went on withoutany respite throughout the night and next day, when theFifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Divisions held on firmly to thetwo villages, Bullecourt and Heudecourt, which they cap-tured on the 29th, the Fifty-second Division being throwninto the battle-line to support them. On the night of September 1 Reincourt was captured, andnext day the Fifty-second and Fifty-seventh divisions, con-tinuing the attack with the Sixty-third Division, capturedQueant and broke clean through the enemys defenses as faras Pronville. On their left the Canadian Corps, reinforcedby a third division, met with equal success north and southof the Arras-Cambrai road, establishing themselves atnightfall 3,000 yards beyond the Switch Line, in the vil- 336
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THE BEGINNING OF THE END BEFORE CAMBRIA After the Switch or the Drooourt-Qu6ant line was taken, the Hindenburg line proper was soon broken through and Cambrai fell V—336 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES lages of Villers-le-Cagincourt and Drury. Further north theFourth Division, debouching from Etrepagny, passedthrough Etain and reached the western end of the Senseemarshes at Lecluse. By the night of September 2, whichwas Sedan Day, the victory w^as complete; the Drocourt-Queant line had been pierced along a twelve-mile front southof the Scarpe, the Germans put to flight, and 10,000 pris-oners captured. The Germans fell back on the Canal duNord, with Homes troops following hard on their heels.

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