Line on the Ourcq showing advance of the Allies in the Marne Salient from July 18 to July 27, 1918. From The History of The A.E.F. by Shipley Thomas.
Line on the Ourcq showing advance of the Allies in the Marne Salient from July 18 to July 27, 1918.
"Moving out from Seringes, the Americans and their French allies reached Fismes on the Vesle River August 2, 1918, having advanced 25 miles in fifteen days and obliterated the Marne salient. On the same day a French division entered Soissons, making an advance of three miles. Thus was celebrated the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the War.These operations marked the close of the first phase of the battle. The Allies, in their brief offensive of two weeks' duration, had forced the enemy back 25 miles and captured 35,000 prisoners, 750 field guns and several thousand machine guns. The Marne salient had been practically wiped out and the army of von Boehm was demoralized. Gen. Foch now decided to strike at the Picardy salient further north."
The Franco-American Aisne-Marne Offensive, begun on July 17, 1918, continued through August 6. Allied Commander-in-Chief Ferdinand Foch's next blow would be the Battle of Amiens.
King's Complete History of the World War by W.C. King, page 450, copyright © 1922, by W.C. King, publisher: The History Associates, publication date: 1922
1918-08-02, 1918, August, Foch, Soissons, Line on the Ourcq
