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Scenario#: 262     Date: 23 October 1917     Location: Fort Malmaison, France

The Montparnasse Quarry sustained continued attacks by the 1st Chasseur Battalion until the garrison finally surrendered at mid-morning. The 1st Chasseur Battalion then joined the 38th Division, and together they advanced on Chavignon and Fort de la…

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Scenario#: 259     Date: 23 October 1917     Location: la Malmaison, France

The French overall plan of attack for the battle, although fought over some of the same area as the Nivelle Offensive, this time called for limited and more reasonable objectives. The 140th Regiment was assigned to attack St. Guillain wood …

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Scenario#: 260     Date: 23 October 1917     Location: Laffaux Salient, France

The 21st and 20th Chasseur Battalions of XXI Corps met little opposition as they advanced. Vaurains Farm was captured with tank support and the eastern end of Lizard and Lady trenches were occupied by early morning. Once the 31st Chasseur …

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Scenario#: 261     Date: 23 October 1917     Location: Vaudesson, France

The French 13th, 43rd and 38th Divisions simultaneously advanced forward towards their objectives. The 13th attacked Vaudesson village and the Belle Croix woods. The 38th entered the Garenne woods and drove the Germans from Orme Farm, while to the…

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Scenario#: 132     Date: 23-25 November 1917     Location: Cambrai, France

On the evening of the 23rd, Haig and Byng met to assess the merit of continuing the operation or pull back to Flesquieres Ridge. After weighing various considerations, Haig decided to continue the operations. Also on the 23rd, the 40th …

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Scenario#: 127     Date: 20 November 1917     Location: Flesquieres, France

Both leading brigades of the 51st Highland Division, after overcoming the German front line machine gun positions, watched with high hopes, as their tanks were pressing on alone towards the crest of the Flesquieres Ridge. The Germans, on the other …

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Scenario#: 131     Date: 23-25 November 1917     Location: Fontaine-Notre-Dame, France

On the evening of the 22rd, Haig and Byng met to assess the merit of continuing the operation or pull back to Flesquieres Ridge. After weighing various considerations, Haig decided to continue the operations. On the morning of the 23rd, …

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Scenario#: 133     Date: 30 November 1917     Location: Cambrai, France

By the morning of 30 November, German High Command had assembled twenty divisions and were poised to counter-attack. All along the line, the Germans put into practice new methods of fighting, which consisted of infiltrating the enemy’s lines with…

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Scenario#: 129     Date: 20 November 1917     Location: Graincourt-lès-Havrincourt, France

Although the 62nd Division met with strong Resistance at Havrincourt, Brigadier-General ‘Boy’ Bradford VC, promoted at 25 years of age, did not wait to see the fall of Havrinourt. He advanced with the 186th Brigade and a company of tanks, …

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Scenario#: 128     Date: 20 November 1917     Location: Havrincourt Village, France

The 62nd Division with G and E battalion tanks had carried most of their first line objective within a couple of hours, including the German trenches in front of Havrincourt. Captain Soltau and remnants of the 84th German Infantry Regiment, …

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Scenario#: 126     Date: 20 November 1917     Location: Cambrai, France

After a short bombardment, the 36th Infantry Brigade with Tank Battalion F attacked the German forward line of trenches, south of the village of La Vacquerie. The tanks had no difficulty crushing paths through the belts of wire in this …

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Scenario#: 125     Date: 20 November 1917     Location: Cambrai, France

After a short bombardment, the 36th Infantry Brigade with Tank Battalion F attacked the German forward line of trenches, south of the village of La Vacquerie. The tanks had no difficulty crushing paths through the belts of wire in this …

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Scenario#: 130     Date: 21 November 1917     Location: Canal de Saint-Quentin, France

Capturing the bridges at Mesnieres and Marcoing was critical to the British plan. The British captured the bridge at Marcoing intact, but at Mesnieres, the advancing British troops were less fortunate, as the bridge had already been blown. An attempt…

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Scenario#: 135     Date: 26 March 1918     Location: Colincamps, France

Germany’s 1918 Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, along the Western Front, was a last-ditch attempt for Germany to win the war before American forces entered Europe in large numbers. On March 26, as part of the Battle of Rosières, the Germans …

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Scenario#: 3     Date: 25 September 1915     Location: Loos, France

After capturing a large area in Northern France and Belgium, German forces had remained on the defensive. The French army, commanded by Joffre, had fought a number of bloody small offensive actions during early 1915, but all failed to impact …

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Scenario#: 6     Date: 29 Sept to 3 Oct 1915     Location: Loos, France

The Battle of Loos was fought between September 25 and October 15, 1915. With most of the major fighting along the rest of the front coming to an end, the trenches of Hohenzollern Redoubt became a priority, as both sides …

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Scenario#: 5     Date: 27 September 1915     Location: Loos, France

The Battle of Loos was fought between September 25 and October 15, 1915. On September 27, the Germans launched a fierce counter attack in an attempt to regain control of “The Dump” and the Redoubt. Reinforced by various elements, the …

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Scenario#: 4     Date: 25 September 1915     Location: Loos, France

The Battle of Loos was fought between September 25 and October 15, 1915. The Hohenzollern Redoubt, considered by British planners to beone of the strongest defensive points in the German line, was a pre-war mining complex. The large slagheap, known …

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Scenario#: 7     Date: 13-14 October 1915     Location: Loos, France

The Battle of Loos was fought between September 25 and October 15, 1915. A heavy British bombardment prior to the attack on October 13 was too light to do sufficient damage to enemy positions and wire. Immediately after leaving their …

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Scenario#: 123     Date: 7 June 1917     Location: Messines Ridge, France

General Herbert Plumer’s Second Army, on 7 June 1917, attacked Messines Ridge, a natural stronghold southeast of Ypres and a German salient since late 1914. Plumer had begun plans to take the position a year earlier and authorized the laying …

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Scenario#: 140     Date: 8 October 1918     Location: Niergnies, France

Towards the end of the second battle of Cambrai, British Mark IV tanks of 12th Battalion confronted a number of German captured Mark IVs. Under orders to support the advance of the 63rd Division to capture the German trench line …

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Scenario#: 257     Date: 16 April 1917     Location: Berry-au-Bac, France

North of Berry-au-Bac, the French tanks succeeded in crossing the first two German trench lines. Advancing on the third line, a direct hit on the group leader’s tank “Dare-devil” did not prevent the remaining Schneiders from pushing onward through a…

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Scenario#: 256     Date: 16 April 1917     Location: Berry-au-Bac, France

On 16 April, waves of French infantry moved against the German trenches. The German front trench line was taken and, when the French tanks arrived, the tanks pushed through the second line. The Germans in the second line, however, did …

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Scenario#: 255     Date: 16 April 1917     Location: Berry-au-Bac, France

The Nivelle Offensive of 1917 was a Franco-British offensive on the Western Front. Robert Nivelle, recently appointed supreme French commander, hoped that the first Schneider CA tank units could be of some use in his planned offensive. The Germans,…

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Scenario#: 254     Date: 4 April 1917     Location: Giffecourt, France

During the attack on 4 April, just north of the farm of La Folie, the Germans could not hold and were pushed out of their defensive positions. In their haste to gain safety, a number of German artillery pieces were …

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Scenario#: 258     Date: 5 May 1917     Location: Moulin-de-Laffaux, France

As the Nivelle Offensive drew to a close, the French command focused on the taking of limited objectives. On 5 May, the windmill at Laffaux, being used by the German artillery spotter, became the objective. The 4th, 9th and 11th …

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Scenario#: 253     Date: 1-4 April 1917     Location: St. Quentin, France

The Nivelle Offensive of 1917 was a Franco-British offensive on the Western Front. The offensive opened with the French Third Army’s preliminary attacks on German forward observation points near St. Quentin. The initial French attack was directed…

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Scenario#: 124     Date: 23 August 1917     Location: Passchendaele, France

It sounds like the far fetched plot of a war film, but in fact, this remarkable incident occurred at the Battle of Passchendaele. The Fray Bentos tank’s officer, Captain Donald Richardson, had been a wholesale grocer in Nottingham before the …

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Scenario#: 136     Date: 24 April 1918     Location: Villers-Bretonneux, France

In early April, the Germans renewed their efforts towards Villers-Bretonneux, a town on the high ground to the south of the city of Amiens. Through Amiens ran the main north-south rail line in northern France. Cutting the line would seriously …

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Scenario#: 122     Date: 15 September 1916     Location: Courcelette, France

On 15 September, after struggling for almost two months to take High Wood and the Switch Line (a line of trenches that ran between High Woods and Flers), with tanks leading the way, these German positions were finally taken. Haig …

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Scenario#: 8     Date: 1 July 1916     Location: Hawthorn Ridge Crater, France

The initial plans for the battle of the Somme were much larger, but the French disaster at Verdun, early in 1916, caused these plans to be scaled back. This meant that the majority of the offensive effort would switch from …

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Scenario#: 121     Date: 15 September 1916     Location: Somme, France

On 15 September the 47th Division attacked High Woods, along with the four tanks allotted to the Division. Three tanks reached the south end of the wood, but two of them turned east, hoping to find more open ground. One …

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Scenario#: 12     Date: 7-10 July 1916     Location: Mametz, France

In hindsight, Mametz Wood could probably have been taken on July 1, but the 7th Division operational orders did not specify such a forward advance. Regrettably, it was not until July 7, that two British Divisions began a pincer attack …

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Scenario#: 11     Date: 1 July 1916     Location: Mametz, France

On July 1 1916, the 7th Division was preparing to capture the small village of Mametz, using a large assault force of 5 battalions. From left to right, these were the 2nd Border Regiment, 9th Devonshire Regiment, 2nd Gordon Highlanders, …

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Scenario#: 9     Date: 1 July 1916     Location: La Boisselle, France

The 8th and 34th British Divisions objective was the town of La Boisselle. The 8th Division attacked from the north, up Mash valley between Ovillers and La Boisselle, while the 34th Division moved up Sausage valley and flanked La Boisselle …

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Scenario#: 18     Date: 1 July 1916     Location: Somme, France

The combined French and British preliminary bombardment in the Montauban sector, unlike other sectors along the Somme front, had been highly effective. On the left of the 30th Division, the 18th Division had tunneled to within yards of he …

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Scenario#: 17     Date: 1 July 1916     Location: Somme, France

The combined French and British preliminary bombardment in the Montauban sector, unlike other sectors along the Somme front, had been highly effective. The 30th Division with the French XX Corps on their right, around 7:30am, advanced toward the…

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Scenario#: 10     Date: 1 July 1916     Location: La Boisselle, France

The 8th and 34th British Divisions objective was the town of La Boisselle. The 8th Division attacked from the north, up Mash valley between Ovillers and La Boisselle, while the 34th Division moved up Sausage valley and flanked La Boisselle …

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Scenario#: 134     Date: 21 March 1918     Location: St. Quentin, France

The German commander, General Erich Ludendorff, in the spring of 1918, believed it was essential for Germany to use the troops freed from the Eastern Front from the collapse of Russia, to achieve a victory against the war-weary Allies on …

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Scenario#: 245     Date: 6-9 March 1916     Location: Verdun, France

In late February, after an early thaw and the arrival of French reinforcements, the German advance began to stall. In addition, the Germans had gone beyond the range of their artillery covering fire and were now in range of the …

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Scenario#: 242     Date: 22 February 1916     Location: Beaumont-en-Verdunois, France

South of Bois des Caures lay the village of Beaumont. The 208th Regiment occupied the village and had almost completed an intermediate trench line that ran directly through the village, just before the German attacked. Storming forward toward the…

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Scenario#: 241     Date: 21-22 February 1916     Location: Verdun Bois Des Caures, France

German General Falkenhayn’s plan for the Verdun Offensive was aimed at securing positions in the Verdun sector, which were of such great pride to the French that they would in his words be “blooding themselves dry” to hold onto these …

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Scenario#: 250     Date: 2-6 June 1916     Location: Fort Vaux, France

The Germans artillery had constantly pounded the area around Fort Vaux since the beginning of the offensive. Yet, the fort was still controlled by the French under the command of 49-year-old Commandant Raynal, when on 1 June, the Germans made …

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Scenario#: 251     Date: 23 June 1916     Location: Fleury, France

Having taken Vaux, the Germans had only one more French defensive line to breakthrough. However, the German army had already started to feel the effects of the Allied offensive in the Somme, as artillery and men were being transferred to …

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Scenario#: 244     Date: 25 February 1916     Location: Fort Douamont, France

Fort Douaumont dominated the northern approach to Verdun and was touted to be worth 100,000 men in pre-war propaganda. But by the time the German attack reached the Douaumont sector, most of the French infantry had been pulled from the …

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Scenario#: 247     Date: 7-8 March 1916     Location: Fort Vaux, France

On 7 March the Germans renewed their attack on the right bank of the Meuse, which coincided with the attacks against the French positions on the left bank. The German objective was Fort Vaux, but first the 408th and 409th …

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Scenario#: 249     Date: 22 May 1916     Location: Fort Douaumont, France

The French assault to retake Fort Douaumont began at 11:50 AM, 22 May. The plan called for a three-pronged attack. On the left, the 36th Infantry Regiment managed to capture the Morchée Trench, but it was costly and the regiment …

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Scenario#: 252     Date: 24 October 1916     Location: Fort Douaumont, France

With the withdrawal of most of the German artillery to the Somme, the French attack to recapture Fort Douaumont had artillery superiority and was aided by two heavy 400mm rail guns. The fort was evacuated on 23 October after being …

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Scenario#: 246     Date: 13-20 March 1916     Location: Cumières-le-Mort-Homme, France

After the initial few days on the left bank of the Meuse, German infantry - unable to make further progress - dug in on 13 March and waited. Their wait was not long, for shortly after the German bombardment resumed …

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Scenario#: 248     Date: 20-22 March 1916     Location: Malancourt, France

All direct attacks toward Hill 304 had been a costly failure. Therefore a plan to outflank the position was proposed and on 20 March, after a lengthy bombardment by trench mortars, General von Kneussl’s 11th Bavarian and 11th Reserve divisions …

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