Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at St Quentin Canal in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Quentin and Vendhuille had been incorporated into the German defences of the Hindenburg Line. The German defences on the canal comprised not only barbed wire entanglements and traps, but generally this stretch of canal was in a deep cutting of about 50 to 80 metres.
The Battle of the St. Quentin Canal (29th September - 2nd October 1918) was an attack launched on 29th September by US, French and British forces. A north-south stretch of this canal between St.
The British 4th Army and the French First Army had reached the canal sector in mid September, and were tasked with crossing the canal at the tunnel section or by the bridge
The canal ran through a tunnel at Bellicourt and there was a bridge further south of the tunnel at Bellenglise.
Haig's Fourth Army helps rupture the Hindenburg Line around the St Quentin Canal.
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