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Backs-to-the-Wall Order Addresses Flanders Crisis

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1918

Douglas Haig Bemersyde, 1st11 April 1918

Flanders · Warfare / World War, 1st

Haig issues his emergency order while German advances threaten British communications and positions in Flanders.

Names involved

Douglas Haig Bemersyde, 1st

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