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The German spring offensive, also known as Kaiserschlacht ("Kaiser's Battle") or the Ludendorff offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during the First World War, beginning on 21 March 1918.
Operation Michael (German: Unternehmen Michael) was a major German military offensive during World War I that began the German spring offensive on 21 March 1918. It was launched from the Hindenburg Line, in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, France.
This is the order of battle for Operation Michael, part of the German Spring Offensive fought from 21 March to 5 April 1918 as one of the main engagements of the First World War. It was fought between mixed French, British and Dominion forces and the German Empire in the Somme region in northern France.
(Map #3) Haig's request for 20 French divisions "astride the Somme and West of Amiens" (blue), and the north–south dividing line of the Somme (red oval). (Map #4) General Foch's handwritten map of the Western Front on March 26, 1918. In the early morning hours of March 21, 1918, German artillery rained down on the Western Front.
The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux (also Actions of Villers-Bretonneux, after the First Battles of the Somme, 1918) took place from 24 to 27 April 1918, during the German spring offensive to the east of Amiens.
The Battle of Seicheprey was a military engagement fought from 20 to 21 April 1918 as a part of the German spring offensive in north-eastern France during the First World War. Three German battalions of Sturmtruppen units commenced an attack on Allied positions in the village of Seicheprey , defended by American troops of the 26th Infantry ...
Waged from 18 to 22 July 1918 between the French (with American and British assistance) and the German armies, the battle was part of the much larger Allied Aisne-Marne counter-offensive. It followed the final German Spring Offensive, Operation Marneschutz-Reims (also known as the Friedensturm or peace offensive).
Map depicting the extent of the German spring offensive, 21 March to 5 April 1918.Moreuil Wood is on the bottom left of the map. At 08:30 on 30 March, General Seely and his aides travelled towards the Moreuil Woods from where his forces were stationed on the other side of the River Avre, with orders to cross the river and delay the enemy advance as much as possible. [1]