The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. From 9 April to...
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The name Battle of Arras refers to a number of battles which took place near the town of Arras in Artois, France: Siege of Arras (1640), a siege by the...
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and nearby, including the Battle of Arras (1914), the Battle of Arras (1917), and the Second Battle of the Somme component of 1918's Hundred Days Offensive...
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The Battle of Vimy Ridge was part of the Battle of Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais department of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were...
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following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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The Battle of Arras (also known as the First Battle of Arras, 1–4 October 1914), was an attempt by the French Army to outflank the German Army, which was...
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tunnels and fought in the Battle of Arras in 1917. From the Middle Ages through to the 19th century, the chalk beds underneath Arras were extensively quarried...
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Ginchy 1917 Operations on the Ancre, January–March 1917 Operation Alberich Nivelle Offensive Battle of Arras (1917) Battle of Vimy Ridge Second Battle of the...
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of the German Sixth Army. The battle was part of the opening phase of the Battle of Arras, part Nivelle Offensive and took place from 9–12 April 1917...
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Sacrifice: The Battle of Arras 1917. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 1-84415-326-6. Passingham, I. (1998). Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge...
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The Battle of Arras (also known as the First Battle of Arras to differentiate it from the better-known 1917 battle) was fought on 9 May 1915 on the Western...
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Operation Alberich (redirect from German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, 1917)
Battle of Arras 1917. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-84415-326-8. Sheldon, J. (2015). The German Army in the Spring Offensives 1917: Arras...
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following battles: Battle of Loos Battle of the Somme (1916) Battle of Arras (1917) Third Battle of Ypres Battle of Cambrai (1917) First Battle of the Somme...
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Ypres (1914), the Battle of the Somme (1916), the Battle of Arras (1917), and the Battle of Passchendaele (1917). During the Battle of Fromelles on 19–20...
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Pas-de-Calais (category Departments of Hauts-de-France)
Memorial, eight kilometres from Arras, commemorates the Battle of Vimy Ridge assault during the Battle of Arras (1917) and is Canada's most important...
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The Battle of Cambrai (Battle of Cambrai, 1917, First Battle of Cambrai and Schlacht von Cambrai) was a British attack in the First World War, followed...
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France: Battle of the Scarpe (1917), three battles that occurred during the Arras Offensive between 9 April and 4 May 1917. Battle of the Scarpe (1918)...
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6th Bavarian Reserve Division (category Reserve divisions of Bavaria in World War I)
Spring of 1917, the division fought in the Battle of Arras. It remained in the Flanders region until August 1917, when it was transferred to Upper Alsace...
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were fired during the First World War at the start of the Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917). The battle was fought by the British Second Army (General Sir...
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Philipp Bouhler (category Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany)
Leutnant in July 1917, and was badly wounded the next month. He was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class, and was hospitalized through the end of the war. From...
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Canadian Corps (category Corps of the British Army)
Ridge: April 9–12 Battle of Arras (1917): April 9 – May 16, 1917 Battle of Arleux: April 28–29 Third Battle of the Scarpe: May 3–4 Battle of Hill 70: August...
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Belgium, 1917: The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battles of Arras. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the...
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demoralisation of French troops and confounded the Anglo-French strategy for 1917. The attack forced the Germans to move reserves to Flanders from the Arras and...
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25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles), CEF (category Military units and formations of Nova Scotia)
were 6,530. Battle of Arras (1917), 18, The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, which took...
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1st Battalion (Ontario Regiment), CEF (category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
Somme 1916 Pozieres Flers-Courcelette Ancre Heights Arras 1917-1918 Vimy 1917 Arleux Scarpe 1917, 1918 Hill 70 Passchendaele Amiens Drocourt –Queant Hindenburg...
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Bloody April (category Aerial operations and battles of World War I)
during the Battle of Arras in April 1917, during which particularly heavy casualties were suffered by the Royal Flying Corps at the hands of the German...
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Tunnel warfare (section Coming of gunpowder)
2010-05-17. "First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Messines, 1917". www.firstworldwar.com. "The Tunnelling Companies RE of 1914-1918". Archived from the...
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14th (Light) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
Somme Battle of Delville Wood – August – September 1916 Battle of Flers-Courcelette – September 1916 Battle of Arras (1917) The First Battle of the Scarpe...
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(Operation Market Garden) Battle of Arras (1654) – Thirty Years' War (Spanish–French extension) Battle of Arras (1917) – World War I Battle of Arsuf – 1191 – Third...
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Ernst Thälmann (category Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic)
end of the war, taking part in the Battle of Champagne (1915–1916), the Battle of the Somme (1916), the Battle of Arras (1917), the Second Battle of the...
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