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Title: Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hazen, Charles Downer, 1868-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Europe -- History 1871-1918
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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and British troops had attackedthe German right flank far to the north in Belgiumand had been successful in driving a wedge betweenthe Germans on the Belgian coast and those in theregion of Lille. Again reserves were rushed by Lu-dendorfif to meet this danger. But neither here inFlanders nor at the other extremity in the Argonnewas the Allied pressure relaxed. Finally Foch was ready for his chief blow. OnOctober 8 he attacked the enemy, anxious about bothflanks, in the center. The attack was made betweenCambrai and St. Quentin by three British armiesunder Byng, Rawlinson and Home, aided by theFrench under Debeney. Here the British achievedperhaps the greatest victory in their history. Hope,repeatedly deferred, was realized at last. In threedays the British drove straight through the Hinden-burg Line on a front of twelve miles, and where itwas strongest, and then pushed on into the opencountry. That boasted defense was no longerinvincible. St. Quentin fell and so, shortly, didCambrai.
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WESTERN FRONT Battle line Mar.21,1918 Nov.II, German advance » Scale in ^£les 4o6 FIFTY YEARS OF EUROPE The consequences of this breaking of the Hinden-burg Line were enormous. The British pushed ontoward Valenciennes. Activity was redoubled alongthe two flanks and soon advances were made pretty-much along the whole line from the English Chan-nel to Verdun. It was a wonderful cooperative move-ment, with glory enough for all the Allies, and tospare. Laon, a tremendous stronghold, was soonevacuated. By October i6 the Germans had had togive up the Belgian coast, Ostend, Zeebrugge. ThenLille, Roubaix, and Turcoing were evacuated. Inthree weeks an amazing victory had been won overpositions selected and long prepared by the Germansthemselves. The Americans pushed steadily downthe Meuse. After October i6 it was merely a ques-tion of time when the Germans would inevitably bedriven back into their own country. Each subse-quent day continued the tale of territory recovered,of towns captured,

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