The attack Attack at the Saint-Mihiel salient was part of a plan Arranging by Pershing in which he hoped that the Americans would break Destroying through the German lines and capture Conquering the fortified city of Metz .

In November and December , the 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts conducted Action multiple unsuccessful attacks against the bridgehead , a salient centered Placing around the supply Supply base and rail junction of Apostolovo , and German troops in the Krivoi Rog area .

Following another failed attack Attack in mid-January , the Nikopol–Krivoy Rog Offensive was launched Military_operation by the 3rd Ukrainian Front to the north of the salient on 30 January , and elements of the 4th Ukrainian Front to the south of it joined Becoming_a_member in a day later .

The IV Army Corps launched Military_operation an unsuccessful counterattack Attack against Apostolovo around this time , resulting in a temporary Soviet pause in order to prepare GetReady for the advance against Krivoi Rog , in the northwest portion of the salient .

The offensive resulted in the loss Earnings_and_losses of the German salient and at least 15,000 casualties being inflicted Causation on the units of 6th Army in the fighting Hostile_encounter .

A German-held salient from Reims to Amiens had been formed Coming_to_be in 1914 , which menaced communications between Paris and northern France .

By destroying Destroying the infrastructure and demolishing Destroying civilian buildings Building in the salient before a withdrawal Escaping , the Germans could dislocate Placing Franco-British offensive preparations by forcing Hostile_encounter them to advance Self_motion into a wasteland .

Fricourt formed Creating a salient in the German front-line and was the principal German fortified village between the River Somme and the Ancre .

Cloud for most of the day , but the failure of other French forces to hold Defending their positions left Causation him isolated and the Crown Prince 's army was able to force Request Trochu 's salient back into Paris by the next day .

The operation succeeded in recapturing the Demyansk salient but failed Earnings_and_losses to encircle the German forces .

As a result , the Chinese decided Deciding to launch Motion an offensive aimed Aiming at the Kumsong salient .

During the Second World War Hostile_encounter , Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive Hostile_encounter by the British XXX Corps ( which included Cause_to_be_included the American 84th Infantry Division ) to reduce Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the Geilenkirchen salient in mid-November 1944 .

The salient was a German position on the Siegfried Line ( or Westwall ) at the boundary between the British 2nd Army and the American 9th Army .

Repeated Confederate attacks Attack were repulsed Defending from this concentrated line , most notably in the cedar `` Round Forest '' salient against the brigade of Col. William B. Hazen .

The goal of the operation Military_operation was the destruction Destroying of a salient around the central Bosnian town of Jajce , which was held by the Croatian Defence Council ( `` Hrvatsko vijeće obrane '' – HVO ) and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( `` Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine '' – ARBiH ) .

The objective was to create Creating a salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the River Rhine , creating Creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany .

The operation succeeded in liberating the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen along with many towns , creating Creating a salient into German-held territory limiting V-2 rocket launching sites .

Operation Military_operation Medak Pocket ( , Операција Медачки џеп ) was a military operation undertaken by the Croatian Army between 9 – 17 September 1993 , in which a salient reaching Arriving the south suburbs of Gospić , in the south-central Lika region of Croatia then under the control Control of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina , was attacked Attack by Croatian forces .