Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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February 25. On the left of the five-mile front the attack beganfrom what was the most advanced and most northerlypoint of the French lino, at tho Cote du Poivro and thoquarries of Haudromont, about two miles east of theMeiu^e at Vacherauville. Between this point andThiaumont, a distance of a mile and a half, the firstadvanca carried the French infantry about a mile tothe road running west from Douaumont to Bras, upthe ravines of Couleuvre and La Dame. In tho nextsection troops starting from Fleury moved almost directlynorth towards Douaumont, up and to the left of theRavine Chambitoux and took the Bois de la Caillette,so that the way to Douaumont was now open on bothsides, and further to the right the attack was pushedforward in a straight line between Douaumont andBezonvaux till it nearly reached the Fort of Vaux midwaybetween them. As far as I can gather, the French Generals them-selves were astonished by the rapidity of the advance,and during the afternoon extended their objective
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VAUX IOUT AMhH IHF, IKl.NCH H()MHAHI)MI,NT, 130-3 458 THi: TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR. to iiieluili- itu) capture of DuuuuiikuiU. Artillery ttiiiliiifiuttry (ought togetluir m perfect coiiibiimtion witliliiitgiiifieeiit cuumge and resolution. That, for oiiuwho haa oeen ihein lately, v/tL-i u foregone conclusion.Thi French have recently boen (Iti.-^cribeii ais a tiri-»lAnny. Nottung couUl be further from the truth.Their entrain in ab fine ab it ever wa and their experienceininieaaurably greater. Perbonally I have seen no tiredtroop-, among them. . Even the mud-ctikt il poilua,fre.sh from u long night in the trenches, some of llu^mnursing froiitbitton feet, are full of go and determina-tion, and when you see them after a few houru or day«en repoa behind the lines, with clean unifurtiis andfaces, they look as if notliing could slop thein. On Tuesday nothing did. It wa^ b«!autiful to watchthe regularity of tlie advance. In all directions, frombehind and in front and from both fla

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