The Spring Offensive (Operation Michael) was a German offensive along the Categories: Historical stubs | World War I ... Western Front during the Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. Battle aftermath. Remains of the Chateau Wood World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to... First World War which marked the deepest advance by any side since 1914.

On March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). There are 285 days remaining. March Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19... March 21, 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). Contents // 1 Events 1.1 January-February 1.2 March-April 1.3 May-July 1.4 August-October 1.5 November 1.6 December 1.7 Unknown dates 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March... 1918 Germany launched a major offensive, codenamed "Operation Michael", against The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the British Commonwealth and European Union. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, UK or, inaccurately, as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent parts. Three of these parts... British and The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. The British Empire was the worlds first global power; by 1921, it held sway over a population of 400–500 million people — roughly a quarter of the worlds population... British Imperial forces. The German army developed new tactics involving For other meanings of stormtrooper see Stormtrooper (disambiguation). The term Stormtrooper refers to special military troops which were formed in the last year of World War I as the German army developed new methods of attacking enemy trenches, called infiltration tactics. Men trained in these methods were known as Sturmmann... stormtroopers, infantry trained in In warfare, infiltration tactics involves small forces bypassing enemy strongpoints, instead isolating these strongpoints for later forces and disrupting rear areas. This tactic was first used by the German Army in 1917 during the First World War, where it was named Hutier tactics. It involves a brief and violent bombardment... Hutier tactics (after Oskar von Hutier) to infiltrate and take trenches.

General Erich Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff (sometimes given incorrectly as Erich von Ludendorff) ( April 9, 1865 – December 20, 1937, Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany) was a German Army officer, noted as a general during World War I. Ludendorff was born in Kruszewnia near Posen, Prussia (now Poznań, Poland). Though, strictly speaking... Erich Ludendorff, the German Officer in command wasted his forces by not following the correct tactics, which had been to attack where defenses would easily fold and move past strongly held areas. It was his continual throwing away of his forces attacking strongly cemented British battalions that led to his inability to attain victory, even though he pushed back the French and British lines far.

The Allies reacted by appointing French Note: This article is about the military usage of the word marshal. For other usages, see the end of this article. A Marshal or Field Marshal (sometimes incorrectly spelled Marshall) (French: mar chal, Chinese: shuai (Chinese Traditional: 元帥), Dutch: Veldmaarschalk, German: Feldmarschall, Portuguese: marechal, Spanish: mariscal, Persian بز... Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch ( October 2, 1851 – March 20, 1929) was a French soldier. He was a French marshal and rose to be commander of the allied armies during World War I. Foch was born in Tarbes, France. He enlisted in the French infantry in 1870 but did not see combat... Ferdinand Foch to coordinate all Allied activity in France, and then as A generalissimo is a commissioned officer of the highest rank; the word is often translated as Supreme Commander or Commander in Chief. It is an Italian superlative substantive, which grammatically would actually be disallowed in Italian (superlatives can be made with adjectives only). When used as a noun, the correct... generalissimo of all Allied forces everywhere.

The German offensive moved forward 60 km (30 mi) and pressed the British lines so much that the The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British army sent to Belgium in World War I and British Forces in Europe from 1939 - 1940 during World War II. The BEF was established by Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane following the Boer War in case Britain ever needed to... British Expeditionary Force (BEF) commander, Field Marshal Sir Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (June 19, 1861 - January 28, 1928) was a British soldier and senior commander during World War I. He had independent wealth: his family manufactured Haig & Haig whisky. Field Marshal Lord Haig Born in Edinburgh, Haig attended Clifton College and studied at Brasenose... Douglas Haig, issued a General Order on April 11 stating "With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause each one of us must fight on to the end." However, by then, the German offensive had stalled because of logistical problems. Counterattacks by Canadian C Squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) and The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (popularly abbreviated as ANZAC) was originally an army corps of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in World War I at Gallipoli, in the Middle East and on the Western Front. Within Australasia the Anzacs came to stand not just for the... ANZAC forces had pushed German forces back.

References

• Stanley Chodorow, Mainstream of Civilization