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- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 abstract "After the Battle of the Ancre (13–18 November 1916), British attacks on the Somme front were stopped by the weather. During the rest of 1916 and early January 1917, military operations by both sides were mostly restricted to survival in the rain, snow, fog, mud fields, waterlogged trenches and shell-holes. As preparations for the offensive at Arras continued, the British attempted to keep German attention on the Somme front. The Fifth Army was instructed by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig to prepare systematic attacks to capture portions of the German defences. Short advances could progressively uncover the remaining German positions in the Ancre valley, threaten the German hold on the village of Serre to the north and expose German positions beyond to ground observation. Artillery-fire could be directed with greater accuracy by ground observers and make overlooked German defences untenable.A more ambitious plan for the spring, was an attack into the salient that had formed north of Bapaume, during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The attack was to be directed northwards from the Ancre valley and southwards from the original front line near Arras to meet at St. Léger, as soon as the ground recovered from the winter and was intended to combine with the effect of the offensive planned at Arras. British operations on the Ancre from 10 January – 22 February 1917, forced the Germans back 5 miles (8.0 km) on a 4 miles (6.4 km) front, ahead of the schedule of the Alberich Bewegung ("Alberich Manoeuvre"/"Operation Alberich") and eventually took 5,284 prisoners. On 22/23 February the Germans fell back another 3 miles (4.8 km) on a 15 miles (24 km) front. The Germans then withdrew from much of the R. I Stellung to the R. II Stellung on 11 March, forestalling a British attack, which was not noticed by the British until dark on 12 March; the main German withdrawal from the Noyon salient to the Hindenburg Line (Operation Alberich) commenced on schedule on 16 March.".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 thumbnail Map_of_the_Battle_of_the_Somme,_1916.svg?width=300.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 wikiPageID "39262148".
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- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 caption "The Western Front, 1917".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 casualties "2151".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 casualties "5284".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 combatant "& British Empire".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 combatant "France & French Empire".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 commander "Douglas Haig".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 commander "Erich Ludendorff".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 commander "Henry Rawlinson".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 commander "Hubert Gough".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 commander "Kronprinz Rupprecht".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 commander "Max von Gallwitz".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 commander "Robert Nivelle".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 conflict "Operations on the Ancre, January – March 1917".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 date "--01-11".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 notes "British pressure forced German withdrawals in the Ancre valley and then retreats to intermediate defensive positions in the Bapaume salient, two weeks before the scheduled retirement to the Hindenburg Line in Operation .".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 partof World_War_I.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 place France.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 result "British victory".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 strength "First Army".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 strength "Fourth Army, Fifth Army".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 territory "Artois, Ancre valley".
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Battles_of_World_War_I_involving_Australia.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Battles_of_World_War_I_involving_Canada.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Battles_of_World_War_I_involving_France.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Battles_of_World_War_I_involving_Germany.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Battles_of_World_War_I_involving_New_Zealand.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Battles_of_World_War_I_involving_South_Africa.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Battles_of_World_War_I_involving_the_United_Kingdom.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Battles_of_the_Western_Front_(World_War_I).
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Campaigns_and_theatres_of_World_War_I.
- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 subject Category:Conflicts_in_1917.
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- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 label "Operations on the Ancre, January – March 1917".
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- Operations_on_the_Ancre,_January_–_March_1917 depiction Map_of_the_Battle_of_the_Somme,_1916.svg.