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Updated: June 9, 2025
On the Arras battle front on June 19, 1917, the British gained some ground south of the Cojeul River, capturing during the operation thirty-five prisoners. French positions between the Ailette River and Laffaux Hill in the Champagne and northwest of Rheims were on this date the special marks for the concentrated fire of German guns.
Beginning on the 17th with an attack on a ten-mile front between Tracy-le-Val and Vingre he had steadily pushed on until by the 23rd his left flank held the Oise as far as its junction with the Ailette and his front faced the latter canalized river as far as Guny. By the 29th he was across the Ailette and threatening to turn the whole German position south of the Somme at Chauny.
Quentin had extended their hold on Holnon Ridge and occupied Ronssoy Wood farther to the north, while in the region of Arras they captured after stiff fighting the village of Henin. South of the Ailette River the French fought their way forward foot by foot.
Eventually the position became untenable and the Germans retired during the night to the Northern side of the Ailette Valley. The best elements of the Crown Prince's army had sustained severe losses and were compelled to go to the rear to reconstitute their diminished ranks.
The French artillery fire broke up the attack between Hurtebise and the Casemates Plateau before it could develop. Assemblages of German troops north of Ailette were dispersed with heavy losses by the concentrated fire from French batteries. German attacks east of the plateaus led to violent hand-to-hand conflicts in which the Germans fought with great courage, but were unable to make gains.
"Continue," he cried. "This is a beautiful confession no sin yet. Continue, Pierre." "Well, then, after that we were fighting here and there, on the Aisne, on the Ailette, everywhere. Always the same story Germans rolling down on us in flood, green-gray waves. But the foam on them was fire and steel. The shells of the barrage swept us like hailstones.
Father Courcy bent forward with shining eyes. "Continue," he cried. "This is a beautiful confession no sin yet. Continue, Pierre." "Well, then, after that we were fighting here and there, on the Aisne, on the Ailette, everywhere. Always the same story Germans rolling down on us in flood, green-gray waves. But the foam on them was fire and steel. The shells of the barrage swept us like hailstones.
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