The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . t 2 , the work, which we subsequently evacuated underthe force of the bombardment. . (FourthFrench recapture and fifth German capture.) .\\x-gust sth On the cast bank of the Meuse lightingcontinued all day in the Thiaumont-Fleury the northwest and to the south of the Thiau-mont work all enemy at
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . t 2 , the work, which we subsequently evacuated underthe force of the bombardment. . (FourthFrench recapture and fifth German capture.) .\\x-gust sth On the cast bank of the Meuse lightingcontinued all day in the Thiaumont-Fleury the northwest and to the south of the Thiau-mont work all enemy attacks undertaken to dis-lodge us from the |x)sitions captured were only did we break the enemys efforts andinflict on him heavy losses, but by means of asecond return offensive our troops succeeded incapturing for the second time in twelve hoursthe Thiaumont work, which remains in our powerin spite of several counter-attacks made by theenemy. (Fifth French recapture.) August 6th.—Onthe cast bank of the Meuse the Germans attemptedby furious counter-attacks to drive us from theThiaumont work. . August Qth.—The Germanssucceeded in obtaining a footing in the Thiaumontwork after a desperate struggle, which still con-tinues. (Sixth French recapture.) August loth.—. ioKI 1» 1. .\T \ ... an enemy attack against the Thiaumont worksucceeded in capturing it lor the fourth time. TheGermans, who had been repulsed six times duringthe night in front of the Thiaumont work, smoth-ered it under an appalling bombardment, andfinally succeeded in taking it in the afternoon.(Fourth German capture.) July 8th.—On the eastbank of the Meuse there was rather fierce fightingduring the day in the region of Thiaumont Germans successively launched several attackspreceded by bombardment against our of these succeeded in getting a foothold inour advanced elements, but our counter-attack, de-veloped about 2 , enabled us to reestablishentirely our lin
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