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Cambrai (Bourlon Village & Wood) 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Cambrai (Flesquieres Ridge) 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Cambrai (Fontaine-Notre-Dame) 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, … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Cambrai (German Counter Attack) 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… the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Cambrai (Graincourt) 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, … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Cambrai (Havrincourt Village) 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, … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Cambrai (Siegfried Stellung Line Part 2) 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Cambrai (Siegfried Stellung Line) 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Cambrai (St. Quientin Canal) 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… the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Following the Tanks Scenario#: 41     Date: 1917-11-20     Location: Flequires, France The 1/6th Black Watch on the right of 153rd Brigade, moving behind the tanks, overran the Outpost Line. At Mole Trench, the last in the main defences which ran behind the whole length of the German Line, they were held up by uncut barbed wire but… Great War Commander — Battle Pack 9