Although successful in pushing the British back, Michael was unsuccessful in separating the French and British armies while Georgette was checked north of Hazebrouck and failed to cut the British supply line. The objectives were to separate the British and French forces, to push the British armies back to the English Channel and to cut the rail line through Hazebrouck, the main supply line for the British force. The first two offensives, Michael and Georgette, were aimed at the British armies. īeginning on 21 March 1918 the Germans launched a series of five offensives known as the 1918 Spring Offensive, or Kaiserschlacht ( Kaiser’s Battle). The Germans realized their only remaining chance for victory on the Western Front was to defeat the Allies before the United States could be fully deployed. The Russian withdrawal from the war after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918 freed 42 German divisions which had been fighting on the Eastern Front, providing a temporary numeric advantage over the Allies on the Western Front. This battle marked the turning point of the war as the Germans would be on the defensive for the remainder of the conflict. This would force them to retreat and give up their gains. As these were the main supply routes for the German forces in the Marne salient, cutting them would severely impair the Germans' ability to supply its armies defending it. The primary objective of the attack was to cut both the Soissons – Château-Thierry road and the railroad running south from Soissons to Château-Thierry. It followed the final German Spring Offensive, Operation Marneschutz-Reims (also known as the Friedensturm or peace offensive). 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. The Battle of Soissons (1918) (also known as the Battle of the Soissonnais and of the Ourcq ( French: Bataille du Soissoinais et de L'Ourcq) ) was a battle fought on the Western Front during World War I.
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