Word: cambrai
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rochester, N. Y., January 12, 1919, of complications resulting from wounds received in accident last September. He received a bul in the lungs at the action in which 27th and 30th American Divisions, operating with the Army of Sir Douglas Haig captured the defenses of the denburg line between Cambrai and Quentin. After treatment in army capitals in France and England, Corp. Vought was invalided to the Columbia Hospital, New York. He was on rough from there at the time of his with...
...those who had hoped for better things, the events of the past weeks have been dark ones upon the Western Front. Where yesterday the battle raged around Cambrai and far east of the Somme, the opposing armies are now aligned upon the Messines Ridge. That the tide of battle has meant a serious reversal for the Allies, no explanation or expression of hope may minimize. The Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict...
...course we have heard more about the British sub-commanders, but until this latest drive upon Cambrai, mention of General Byng had been quite casual. He is now on the way to hero worship and we shall presently be deluged with details as to what he eats, how he behaved in school and who his favorite authors...
...expect every British tank to do its damnedest." Such was the message of General Byng, given immediately before the opening of the great battle of Cambrai. The gist of this message was sounded more than a century ago and was followed by a victory as glorious and decisive as is recorded in the history of nations. It came, as in the present instance, at a moment when the enemy was winning successes in every country of Europe, when public opinion was discouraged, and ominous clamors for peace were being heard. But roused by the confidence and determination of their chief...