Battle of Amiens

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in World War I. Result: The Allies gained fifteen miles in two days’ fighting and caused another German withdrawal of fifteen miles.

On August 8, 1918, at 4:20 a.m., seventeen divisions of Henry Rawlinson’s Fourth Army and seven of Marie-Eugène Debeney’s First Army attacked eastward along a thirteen-mile front. The twenty depleted divisions of the German Second and Eighteenth Armies (led by Georg von der Marwitz and Oskar von Hutier, respectively) opposing them offered ineffective resistance. Supported by...

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