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British Line in Northern France Faces Narrow Corridor Risk
An 1918 analysis argues the British front north of the Somme could be squeezed to the sea if German advances push toward Boulogne and Abbeville. It compares possible retirements to Corunna and warns that a Second Somme-like disaster would jeopardize supplies, rail links, and coastal ports, while stressing allied endurance and potential long, slow pounding toward renewed offensives.
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France
Douglas Vaig
Arimentieres
Mrifish
Belgrane
Bt. Quentin
Sir John Moore
Corunna
Channel
Somme
Picardy
The
Belgium
Abbeville
Amiens
Hazebrouck
Boulogne
St. Quentin
Foch
Viliers-Bretonneux
Petain
Verdun
Meuse
Soine
Antwerp
Boulogne-Calais-Amiens
Dunkirk
Lys
Ypres
Third Army
Arras
Sea
Mounh
Calais
Ayre-St. Pol-Doullens
al Tho
Nemmel
Notre Dame de Vimy
Dunkirk-St. Omer-St. Pol-Dotillens
Havre
Rouen
Seine
Lers
Flanders
Artois
Dover
America
Amiets
Ney
Theta
Chou
Het
Chis Dolby
Sone
Ue Lys
Oisa
Alglins
Vyuor Iron
Garmunk
Vianders Plain
St. Omer
Bethune