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	1918 - The Hindenburg Line
		The Hindenburg Line- the last and strongest of the German army's defence - consisted of three well-defended trench systems, established in 1917.
		Some Australian soldiers from the 46th Battalion in a German trench in the Hindenburg Line.
		The last brigade fought and took Montbrehain village, and with that, the Hindenburg Line was completely broken.
	www.awm.gov.au /1918/battles/hindenburg.htm (848 words)

	Hindenburg Line, the last barrier. Aussies crash through
		The Hindenburg Line- the last and strongest of the German army's defence - consisted of three well-defended trench systems, established in 1917.
		Tomorrow we are to take part in the greatest and most important battle that we have yet been in, for we are to assault the Hindenburg Line, the famous trench system which the Germans have boasted is impregnable.
		Eventually, the Allies broke through the third and final stage of the Hindenburg Line, and the Germans were forced to fall back.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww1/france/hindenburg.htm (427 words)

	SECTION VI
		The main attack was to be preceded by a preliminary operation for the purpose of advancing the line of departure to the outpost line of the Hindenburg defenses.
		An attack on the main Hindenburg line being contemplated, it was decided by the commander of the British Fourth Army that a preliminary operation was necessary in order to occupy the outer line of defenses, including the Knoll, and Guillemont and Quennemont farms, from which to launch the main attack.
		The division line, on the evening of September 29, was approximately as follows: From the Knoll south to the west of Guillemont farm, thence southeastwardly to the Hindenburg line, and along this line to the division limits.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwi/fieldoperations/chapter37.htm (8875 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The decision to build the line was made by Generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff during the final stages of the First Battle of the Somme.
		The Hindenburg Line was built across a salient in the German front, so that by withdrawing to these fortifications the German army was actually shortening their front.
		The withdrawal to the line was begun in February 1917, and the territory between the old front and the new line was left devastated as the German army employed the scorched earth tactic.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Hindenburg_Line (331 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Hindenburg Line
		The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defences in Northern France constructed by the Germans during the winter of 1916–17 during World War I; the Germans called it the Siegfried Line.
		The strategy behind the Line involved actually withdrawing from some territory on the front back towards the more easily defended ground of the Line; this shortened the length of the front by 25 miles and enabled the Germans to release 13 divisions for service in reserve.
		This German withdrawal began in February 1917; the area between the old front and the Line was deliberately devastated as a scorched earth tactic.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Hindenburg_line (328 words)

	Trench Memories
		Well, the Hindenburg line — of which I can speak from experience, having stayed in the part of it that we held all last winter after the "Cambrai show" — is a system of trenches very much like other trenches, only more so.
		It is in concrete that the strength of the Hindenburg line chiefly consists.
		Thus was the Hindenburg line prepared and occupied, and there the German armies stayed for a year, save in the part which we took at the Battle of Cambrai and kept.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Trenches/Trench_Memories_01.htm (1329 words)

	First World War.com - Primary Documents - Sir Douglas Haig's 3rd Despatch (German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line), 31 ...
		This system, which was known as the Le Transloy-Loupart line, both by reason of its situation and as a result of the skill and industry expended on its preparation, constituted an exceedingly, strong natural defensive position; second only to that from which the enemy had recently been driven on the Morval-Thiepval Ridge.
		Little opposition was met, and by the 16th March we held the western half of Moislains Wood, the whole of St. Pierre Vaast Wood with the exception of its north-eastern corner, and the enemy's front trenches as far as the northern outskirts of Sailly-Saillisel.
		At different stages of the advance successive lines of resistance were selected and put in a state of defence by the main bodies of our infantry, while cavalry and infantry outposts maintained touch with the enemy and covered the work of consolidation.
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/haighindenburgdespatch.htm (6360 words)

	Hindenburg, Paul von. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1916, Hindenburg, by then a field marshal, succeeded General Falkenhayn as commander of all German armies; Ludendorff was made quartermaster general.
		After the overthrow of the emperor (November), Hindenburg and the army swore an oath of allegiance to the republican government.
		Although Hindenburg was to be tried as a war criminal under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the special German court at Leipzig never even indicted him.
	www.bartleby.com /65/hi/HindenbP.html (453 words)

	Hindenburg Line
		Hindenburg Line (Siegfried-Stellung), a system of fortified and entrenched reserve positions stretching 80 km southeast from Arras to Soissons, France, built by the Germans in the winter of 1916-17.
		On 2-3 September 1918 the Canadian Corps broke open its northern hinge (the Drocourt-Quéant switch, or Wotan-Stellung) and compelled those German units west of the line to withdraw to it.
		Again outflanked, the Germans abandoned the line and continued their retreat to the east.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1SEC821976 (113 words)

	Victory and Delusion 1918
		Hindenburg suggested transferring all reserve units to the area of attack, which Ludendorff said was nonsense.
		Hindenburg was present and demonstrated his uselessness and lack of understanding that generals sometimes have.
		Hindenburg was there, and as a sentimental supporter of the German monarchy he was unable to tell Wilhelm that he, Wilhelm, had no support.
	www.fsmitha.com /h2/ch08b.htm (4889 words)

	O'RYAN'S ROUGHNECKS - SOMME OFFENSIVE
		Since the British III Corps had failed to secure the designated line of departure for the general attack against the Hindenburg which was to be launched on September 29th, The American II Corps, composed of the 27th and 30 Divisions, was given the mission.
		Upon reaching this line, the Australian Corps was to pass through the II Corps and continue the attack.
		The division was relieved on this line by the British 6th Division on October 21.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/27thdivision/somme.html (817 words)

	Hindenburg - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		The Hindenburg was a famous pirate ship built in Germany by Dutch pirates.
		The Hindenburg is most notable for having been attacked by a gigantic whale and starting a large scale (about 10:3) nuclear war.
		They were faced with a decision to flee on the ninja boat, or to stay on the Hindenburg and counter-counter-attack as the whale was swimming in for it's second counter-attack.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Hindenburg (894 words)

	RJP:62Div:Bullecourt
		In the photograph, the Hindenburg support line trench extends across the background, to the north of the village and has a dense strip of wire in front of its trench.
		The general line of the front line trench passes across the centre of the picture, from left background to right foreground.
		This shows clearly in the photo on the road line which had been abandoned by the time the photo was taken and replaced on a parallel line.
	www.rjplincs.plus.com /omiwxb262Div5.htm (528 words)

	Marshall von Hindenburg
		Hindenburg, it must be remembered, controls all the vassal armies of Germany.
		It gained for Hindenburg the nickname of "Marshal Backwards," and it was an acknowledgment that the German Army had been driven from positions which they had spent more than two years in strengthening and consolidating.
		Hindenburg has only fought once on the Russian front since he was appointed to the supreme command, and that was when the Russians broke and fled in Galicia this summer as the result of treachery.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/German_Portraits/Hindenburg_02.htm (1473 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hindenburg, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He fought in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and was appointed (1878) to the general staff.
		Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von World Encyclopedia...
		Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von (1847–1934) German statesman and general, president (1925–34).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Hindenburg, (772 words)

	MAGINOT--PAGE TWO (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The line was named in honor of André Maginot, war hero, beloved Minister of Veteran's Affairs, and Minister of War from 1928 to 1932.
		The Maginot Line was a powerful line of defense which stretched from Switzerland to the Ardennes in the North, and from the Alps to the Mediterranean in the South.
		The Maginot Line did not fail France, but the "Maginot mentality" did cause her defeat, as did the refusal of her leaders to acknowledge the coming of modern warfare- -mobile battles that would be fought with tanks and aircraft.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/1491/pagetwo.html (1031 words)

	O'RYAN'S ROUGHNECKS - ENGAGEMENTS AND BATTLES
		This operation was a planned attack with tanks, artillery and machine gun barrage to capture the strong outpost line of the Hindenburg Line.
		The failure of this attack was to have dire consequences for the 107th Infantry on the 29th.
		The Battle of the Hindenburg Line was a prepared attack; the 3rd British Corps on the left, the Second American Corps (27th and 30th Divisions), The Australian Corps, the 9th British Corps and the French 10th Army participating.
	www.oryansroughnecks.org /engagements.html (416 words)

	Hindenburg Line - Arras, Cambrai and St Quentin
		The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defences in Northern France constructed by the Germans during the winter of 1916-17.
		It ran from the area around Arras all the way to beyond St Quentin, and consisted of deep and wide trenches, thick belts of barbed wire, concrete machine-gun positions, concrete bunkers, tunnels and command posts.
		Eighty years later the Hindenburg Line battlefields are among the most forgotten along the entire Western Front.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /hindenburg_line.htm (183 words)

	O'RYAN'S ROUGHNECKS - REGIMENTAL HISTORY
		By the end of July, the unit was ready for some practical experience on the East Poperinghe Line, part of the Ypres Salient in Belgium.
		The unit spent two weeks south of Toulons practicing assault tactics and on September 25th they occupied positions in front of the St. Quentin Canal tunnel, part of the Hindenburg Line.
		The attack commenced at 6 AM and lasted 2 days; by the time the 107th was relieved it had lost 22 officers killed or wounded, 324 men killed and 874 wounded.
	www.oryansroughnecks.org /history.html (1347 words)

	Hindenburg Line
		On 29th August, 1916, Paul von Hindenburg became Chief of Staff of the German Army.
		Hindenburg and his quartermaster general, Erich von Ludendorff, decided to build a system of German defence fortifications behind the northern and central sectors of the Western Front.
		After the failure of the Spring Offensive the German Army retreated to the Hindenburg Line.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWhindenburgL.htm (442 words)

	The Battle of Arras, 1917
		The British attack was against the formidable Hindenburg Line, to which the enemy had recently made a strategic withdrawal.
		The battle can be considered to be composed of a number of phases: the Battle of Vimy and the First Battle of the Scarpe were the opening phases; the Second and Third Battle of the Scarpe and the final Battle of Bullecourt and other actions against the Hindenburg Line concluded the fighting.
		The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line, 1917
	www.1914-1918.net /bat18.htm (612 words)

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	Old Front Line - WW1 Battlefields by Paul Reed
		I am a military historian, author and battlefield guide, with over twenty five years interest in the Great War, and the author of several books in the 'Battleground Europe' series published by Pen and Sword (including the best-selling Walking The Somme).
		The site is now more than six years old, and has developed to include most areas of the Western Front and also Gallipoli.
		I hope the site has inspired visitors to the battlefields old and new, and as the last of the veterans of the war fade away, the time to remember is even more important.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com (229 words)

	O'RYAN'S ROUGHNECKS - HISTORICAL PHOTOS AND POST CARDS PAGE 2
		Training for the attack on the Hindenburg Line
		USA- NEW YORK DIVISION- WHO FELL IN THE BATTLE FOR THE HINDENBURG LINE SEPT 27-30, 1918."
		Living Insignia of the 27th Division, a post war image formed by over 10,000 unit members.
	www.oryansroughnecks.org /historicalpics2.html (201 words)

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