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; . fidefense. On the 27lh July the German forwarddefense system was found to be unoccupied onthe northern portion of the Fifth Army Guards and French troops seized the oppor- Zillcbeke-Zandvoorde Road to Bocsinghe, inclu-sive. Covering the right of the Fifth Army, thetask of the Second .Xrniy was t
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; . fidefense. On the 27lh July the German forwarddefense system was found to be unoccupied onthe northern portion of the Fifth Army Guards and French troops seized the oppor- Zillcbeke-Zandvoorde Road to Bocsinghe, inclu-sive. Covering the right of the Fifth Army, thetask of the Second .Xrniy was to advance a shortdistance only. Its principal object at this stagewas to incrciise the area threatened by the attackand so force the enemy to distribute the fire ofhis artillery. I had other tasks in view for it ata later period. On the left of the Fifth Army theFirst French Army was to advance its right inclose touch with the British forces and securethem from counter-attack from the north. Thisentailed an advance of considerable depth overdifficult country, and ultimately involved the cap-ture of the whole peninsula lying between the YserCanal and the Hoods of the St. Jansbeek and theMartjevaart. The plan of attack on the \rmy front was to advance in a series of bounds,. xiLIUt-Ks hijL Willi GAS .MAsKa SlRAVERS tunity to cross the Yser Canal, and establishedthemselves firmly in the enemys first and sup-port trenches on a front of about 3,000 yards castand north of Boesinghe. All hostile attempts toeject him failed, and during the night seventeenbridges were thrown across the canal by ourtroops. This operation greatly facilitated the taskof the Allied troojK on this part of the battlefront, to whose attack the Yser Canal had pre-viously presented a formidable obstacle. Whetherthe withdrawal which made it possible was dueto the desire of the German infantry to escapeour bombardment, or to their fear that our at-tack would be inaugurated b
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