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History’s First Tank Offensive: Britain’s World War I Attack At Cambrai

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Cambrai wasn’t history’s first tank attack. It was history’s first tank offensive. The tanks would not be a mechanical freak show. Instead, they would be an integral ...
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Precedent Setting: Britain’s Attack At Cambrai Was History’s First Tank Offensive

Recommended: Why Doesn’t America Kill Kim Jong Un? At dawn on November 20, 1917, it was business as usual on the Western Front. Snug in their Hindenburg Line fortifications near the northern French ...