The Battle of Cambrai began on 20 November 1917 when a huge artillery bombardment from 1,003 guns was launched on German positions in the strategically important area of Cambrai near Calais.

The Battle of Cambrai showed how to break the deadlock on the Western Front - but at a terrible cost. ... 1916, and 1917 as needless and wrongly conceived operations of infinite cost, ...

During the battle of Cambrai in World War I, Nov. 20 to Dec. 7, 1917, the first American units saw action. The same battle also showcased the first large-scale effective use of combined arms ...

Though tanks debuted in battle the year before, it was in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, during World War I, that the armored monsters became the most feared weapon on the battlefield. Tanks have ...

Commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Cambrai will be held in the area this week. On Sunday, November 25, the Royal Tank Regiment, known as the Tank Corps in 1917, will ...

The Battle of Cambrai showed how to break the deadlock on the Western Front - but at a terrible cost. ... 1916, and 1917 as needless and wrongly conceived operations of infinite cost, ...

Though tanks technically existed on the battlefield the prior year, it was really during 1917’s World War I Battle of Cambrai that these heavily-armored behemoths became one of the most fearsome ...

After years of tiny gains at the cost of appalling casualties, Cambrai, fought 100 years ago, was heralded as the longed-for victory on the Western Front. But did a battle that left both sides ...