The French part of the offensive was intended to be strategically decisive by breaking Bodily_harm through the German defences on the Aisne front within with casualties expected to be around A preliminary attack was to be made by the French Third Army at St Quentin and the British First , Third and Fifth armies at Arras , to capture Conquering high ground and divert German reserves from the French fronts on the Aisne and in Champagne .

The main offensive was to be delivered Military_operation by the French on the Chemin des Dames ridge ( the Second Battle of the Aisne , , and ) , with a subsidiary attack by the Fourth Army ( Third Battle of Champagne , Battle of the Hills , Battle of the Hills of Champagne ) .

The Franco-British attacks were tactically successful ; the French Third Army of `` Groupe d'armées du Nord '' ( GAN , Northern Army Group ) captured Conquering the German defences west of the Hindenburg Line near St. Quentin from 1 to 4 April , before further attacks were repulsed Defending .

The Franco-British attacks were tactically successful ; the French Third Army of `` Groupe d'armées du Nord '' ( GAN , Northern Army Group ) captured Conquering the German defences west of the Hindenburg Line near St. Quentin from 1 to 4 April , before further attacks were repulsed Defending .

It procured Getting most of its officers , men , and equipment from the AAF , augmented Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by British , British-Indian Army , Commonwealth forces Hostile_encounter , Burmese labor gangs and an air transport section of the Chinese National Aviation Corporation ( CNAC ) .

The El Calabozo massacre Violence was an incident during the Salvadoran Civil War on 21-22 August 1982 , in which more than two hundred people , including children and elderly , were reportedly killed Killing at El Calabozo by the Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army .

The First Battle of Bud Dajo , also known as the Moro Crater Massacre Killing , was a counter insurgency action fought Hostile_encounter by the United States Army against Moros in March 1906 , during the Moro Rebellion in the southwestern Philippines .

Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) detonated Attack two bombs during British military ceremonies in Hyde Park and Regent 's Park , both in central London .

Several bombs that failed to detonate Attack were defused Resolve_problem by bomb disposal squads of the Army , National Security Guards and Tamil Nadu Commando School .

On January 30 , 1945 , during World War II , United States Army Rangers , Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas liberated more than 500 from the POW camp .

In late January 1945 , a plan was developed Coming_to_be by Sixth Army leaders and Filipino guerrillas to send Sending a small force to rescue Rescuing the prisoners .

Helped Assistance by an Army sent from Bombay , Cornwallis occupied Control the hill fort of Nandy Droog about north of Bangalore on his line of communication towards Seringapatnam where he reached Arriving on 5 February 1792 .

The London Docklands bombing Attack ( also known as the South Quay bombing Attack or erroneously referred Name_conferral to as the Canary Wharf bombing Attack ) occurred Presence on 9 February 1996 , when the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) detonated Committing_crime a powerful truck bomb in South Quay ( which is outside Canary Wharf ) .

Commandos backed by the 2nd Battalion The Princesses of Wales 's Royal Regiment and the Afghan National Army attacked Attack and captured Arrest the town of Shin Kalay , west of Lashkar Gah .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Saigon was a month-long battle Hostile_encounter between the Vietnamese National Army of the State of Vietnam ( later to become Becoming the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ) and the private army of the Bình Xuyên organised crime syndicate .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Saigon was a month-long battle Hostile_encounter between the Vietnamese National Army of the State of Vietnam ( later to become Becoming the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ) and the private army of the Bình Xuyên organised crime syndicate .

The British Second Army held Defending the ground from Messines Ridge northwards to Steenstraat and the divisions opposite the German XXIII Reserve Corps had received Receiving warnings of a gas attack Attack .

After victory Getting at First Battle Hostile_encounter of Bull Run , the Confederate States Army ( CSA ) established Creating a defensive Defending line from Centreville along the Occoquan River to the Potomac River .

Operation Mistral 2 , officially codenamed Military_operation Operation Maestral 2 , was a Croatian Army ( HV ) and Croatian Defence Council ( HVO ) offensive in western Bosnia and Herzegovina on 8–15 September 1995 as part of the Bosnian War .

Its objective was to create Creating a security buffer between Croatia and positions held Hold by the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) and to put Placing the largest Bosnian Serb-held city , Banja Luka , in jeopardy by capturing Arrest the towns of Jajce , Šipovo and Drvar .

Days after commencement of the offensive , the VRS positions to the right and to the left Departing of the HV and the HVO advance were also attacked Attack by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( `` Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine '' – ARBiH ) in Operation Sana .

The retirement to the Hindenburg Line took place Process_start as part of the ( Operation Alberich/Alberich Manoeuvre ) from February to March 1917 , after local withdrawals on the Somme had been forced on the 1st Army by British attacks Attack up the Ancre valley in January and February .

The 6th Airborne Division advance Arriving to the River Seine occurred Process_start in August 1944 , in the later stages of the Battle Hostile_encounter of Normandy , following the German Army 's defeat Hostile_encounter in the Falaise Pocket , during the Second World War Hostile_encounter .

The 6th Airborne Division began Process_start their advance on 17 August , after the German Army had started Process_start to withdraw Escaping .

After being initially besieged Besieging by the forces of the Yugoslav People 's Army , Sarajevo was besieged Besieging by the Army of Republika Srpska from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 ( 1,425 days ) during the Bosnian War .

After being initially besieged Besieging by the forces of the Yugoslav People 's Army , Sarajevo was besieged Besieging by the Army of Republika Srpska from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 ( 1,425 days ) during the Bosnian War .

The Provisional Irish Republican Army has never officially admitted Reveal_secret responsibility for the Birmingham pub bombings Attack , although a former senior officer of the organisation confessed Reveal_secret to their involvement Participation in 2014 .

In the effect of a pincer maneuver Military_operation some 160 kilometres behind the front line , the Polish Army was able to seize Conquering the strategically important town of Korosten .

The town , a major railway hub and a Red Army supply depot , was captured Conquering with negligible Polish losses Earnings_and_losses .

The Croatian War Military_operation of Independence was fought Hostile_encounter from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared Expressing_publicly independence Change_of_leadership from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) —and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) and local Serb forces , with the JNA ending its combat Hostile_encounter operations Military_operation in Croatia by 1992 .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of the Ancre was fought Hostile_encounter by the Fifth Army ( Lieutenant-General Hubert Gough ) , against the German 1st Army ( General Fritz von Below ) .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of the Ancre was fought Hostile_encounter by the Fifth Army ( Lieutenant-General Hubert Gough ) , against the German 1st Army ( General Fritz von Below ) .

The battle Hostile_encounter was the final large British attack Attack of the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Somme ; the Reserve Army had been renamed Name_conferral on 30 October .

Due to the inability of units of the British First Army to link Connect up with the Pont Du Fahs force , the 2nd Parachute Battalion , under Lieutenant Colonel John Frost , was forced Request to retreat Escaping over fifty miles towards the nearest Allied units ; it was attacked Attack several times during the retreat Escaping , and although it reached Arriving Allied lines safely it had taken Getting more than 250 casualties Catastrophe .

The Uman–Botoşani Offensive or Uman-Botoshany Offensive ( ) was a part of the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive , carried out Military_operation by the Red Army in western Ukrainian SSR against the German 8th Army of Army Group South .

The Uman–Botoşani Offensive or Uman-Botoshany Offensive ( ) was a part of the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive , carried out Military_operation by the Red Army in western Ukrainian SSR against the German 8th Army of Army Group South .

The Uman–Botoşani Offensive or Uman-Botoshany Offensive ( ) was a part of the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive , carried out Military_operation by the Red Army in western Ukrainian SSR against the German 8th Army of Army Group South .

Led by Marshal Ivan Konev , this Soviet operation became Becoming one of the most successful Red Army operations of the whole war .

This offensive , alongside Marshal Zhukov 's great slicing blow , had split Destroying Wehrmacht 's Army Group South into two parts- north and south of Carpathian Mountains .

The northern portion was renamed Name_conferral to Army Group North Ukraine , while the southern portion to Army Group South Ukraine , which was effective from 5 April 1944 , although very little of Ukraine remained Presence in German hands .

The northern portion was renamed Name_conferral to Army Group North Ukraine , while the southern portion to Army Group South Ukraine , which was effective from 5 April 1944 , although very little of Ukraine remained Presence in German hands .

As a result of this split , the Soviets had cut Removing the main supply lifeline of Army Group South- the Lvov-Odessa railway .

For the Wehrmacht defeat Conquering , the commander of Army Group South Erich von Manstein and the commander of Army Group A Ewald von Kleist were dismissed by Hitler and replaced Change_of_leadership by Walther Model and Ferdinand Schörner respectively .

For the Wehrmacht defeat Conquering , the commander of Army Group South Erich von Manstein and the commander of Army Group A Ewald von Kleist were dismissed by Hitler and replaced Change_of_leadership by Walther Model and Ferdinand Schörner respectively .

In order to save Rescuing its southern sector from complete collapse , the German high command was forced to transfer Military_operation 7 divisions from the neighboring German 6th Army in the south to the disintegrating Destroying front of the 8th Army , while also mobilizing Cause_to_amalgamate Romanian 4th Army that consisted Cause_to_be_included of 8 divisions and 1 brigade , with another 7 Romanian divisions and 2 brigades being incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate directly into the German 8th Army .

In order to save Rescuing its southern sector from complete collapse , the German high command was forced to transfer Military_operation 7 divisions from the neighboring German 6th Army in the south to the disintegrating Destroying front of the 8th Army , while also mobilizing Cause_to_amalgamate Romanian 4th Army that consisted Cause_to_be_included of 8 divisions and 1 brigade , with another 7 Romanian divisions and 2 brigades being incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate directly into the German 8th Army .

In order to save Rescuing its southern sector from complete collapse , the German high command was forced to transfer Military_operation 7 divisions from the neighboring German 6th Army in the south to the disintegrating Destroying front of the 8th Army , while also mobilizing Cause_to_amalgamate Romanian 4th Army that consisted Cause_to_be_included of 8 divisions and 1 brigade , with another 7 Romanian divisions and 2 brigades being incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate directly into the German 8th Army .

In order to save Rescuing its southern sector from complete collapse , the German high command was forced to transfer Military_operation 7 divisions from the neighboring German 6th Army in the south to the disintegrating Destroying front of the 8th Army , while also mobilizing Cause_to_amalgamate Romanian 4th Army that consisted Cause_to_be_included of 8 divisions and 1 brigade , with another 7 Romanian divisions and 2 brigades being incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate directly into the German 8th Army .

This was the only operation in which the Red Army had crossed Motion_directional 6 major rivers one after another- Gornyi Tikich , Southern Bug , Dniester , Reut , Prut and Siret .

The operation was part of the Clearing the Channel Coast undertaken Action by the First Canadian Army , following the victory of Operation Overlord and the break-out from Normandy .