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Somme (High Wood) 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Somme (Flers and Coucelette) 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Messines Ridge 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Passchendaele (Fray Bentos) 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 … 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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
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 (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 (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
St. Quentin 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Colincamps 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Second Battle of Villers 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Villers-Bretonneux (Tank vs Tank) Scenario#: 137     Date: 24 April 1918     Location: Villers-Bretonneux, France Fighting was already taking place in the streets of Villers-Bretonneux, when Captain Brown’s three tanks, a male and two females, all Mk IVs, were ordered to support the infantry between Villers and Cachy. Second Lieutenant Mitchell was in command of… the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Villers-Bretonneux (Tank vs Tank) Scenario#: 138     Date: 24 April 1918     Location: Villers-Bretonneux, France Fighting was already taking place in the streets of Villers-Bretonneux, when Second Lieutenant Mitchell, in command of a British male Mk IV tank, attacked and knocked out one German A7V tank and forced two captured British Mk IV tanks to … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Villers-Bretonneux (Tank vs Tank) Scenario#: 139     Date: 24 April 1918     Location: Villers-Bretonneux, France Also on the 24th, shortly after the Whippet tanks had moved out of sight of Mitchell’s Mark IV tank, they engaged a group of German infantry in the open. The German infantry were routed and as the tanks followed the … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion
Niergnies 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 … the Great War (C&C) — Tank Expansion