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By the evening of 20 May, Guderian’s panzer spearheads had reached Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme, and at this point their line was as thinned out as it ever would be. The Germans were vulnerable to a determined counterattack, but the only one that threatened the speeding panzers was by British tanks at […]

Canadian troops constructing a bridge across Canal-du-Nord, September 1918. Start Date: September 27, 1918 End Date: October 1, 1918 Critical battle in the final Entente offensive of 1918, part of an overall Allied offensive on the Western Front. The engagement occurred in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais region of France, in the extreme northern part of […]