First Battle of Artois

First Battle of Artois
	Part of theWestern Frontof theFirst World War
	; Area of operations, 1914
Date	17 December 1914 – 13 January 1915
Location	Artois,France50°30′N02°30′E/ 50.500°N 2.500°E
Result	Indecisive
Belligerents
France; United Kingdom	German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Joffre	Erich von Falkenhayn; Rupprecht of Bavaria
	Artois class=notpageimage\| Artois, a region of northern France of around 4,000 km2(1,500 sq mi) around Arras, Saint-Omer, Lens and Béthune.

TheFirst Battle of Artois(17 December 1914 – 13 January 1915) was fought during theFirst World Warbetween the French and German armies on the Western Front. The battle was the first offensive move on theWestern Frontby either side after the end of theFirst Battle of Ypresin November 1914. The French attack failed to break the stalemate.

Background[edit]

During what became known as theRace to the SeatheBattle of Arras(1–4 October)had been fought, after which local operations, particularly on the Lorette Spur, continued during the First Battle of Flanders to the north.

Subsequent operations[edit]

In May 1915, theTenth Armyconducted an offensive known as theSecond Battle of Artois.TheThird Battle of Artois,sometimes called the Artois–Loos Offensive, took place from25 September to 15 October 1915.^[1]

Footnotes[edit]

^Doughty 2005.

References[edit]

Books

Doughty, R. A.(2005).Pyrrhic victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press.ISBN 978-0-674-01880-8.

Further reading[edit]

Boff, J. (2018).Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front(1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-967046-8.
Clayton, A. (2003).Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914–18.London: Cassell.ISBN 978-0-304-35949-3.
Edmonds, J. E.; Wynne, G. C. (1995) [1927].Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915: Winter 1914–15 Battle of Neuve Chapelle: Battles of Ypres.History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (Imperial War Museum and Battery Press ed.). London: Macmillan.ISBN 978-0-89839-218-0.
Haeften, Hans von, ed. (1932).Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: Militärischen Operationen zu Lande, Achter Band: Die Operationen des Jahres 1915: Die Ereignisse im Westen im Frühjahr im Sommer, im Osten vom Frühjahr bis zum Jahresschluß[The World War 1914 to 1918, Military Land Operations Volume Eight: The Operations in the Year 1915: The Events in the West from the Spring into the Summer and in the East from the Summer to the Year's end] (in German). Vol. VIII (online scan ed.). Berlin: Verlag Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn.OCLC 838300036.Retrieved25 November2013– via Die digitale landesbibliotek Oberösterreich (The Upper Austrian Provincial Library).
Hoeppner, E. (1994) [1921].Deutschlands Krieg in der Luft: ein Rückblick auf die Entwicklung und die Leistungen unserer Heeres-Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege[Germany's War in the Air: the Development and Operations of German Military Aviation in the World War] (in German) (trans. Battery Press ed.). Leipzig: K.F. Koehler.ISBN 978-0-89839-195-4.
Humphries, M. O.; Maker, J., eds. (2010).Germany's Western Front, 1915: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War.Vol. II. Waterloo Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.ISBN 978-1-55458-259-4.
Krause, J. (2013).Early Trench Tactics in the French Army: the Second Battle of Artois, May–June 1915(1st ed.). Farnham: Ashgate.ISBN 978-1-40945-500-4.
Sheldon, J. (2008).The German Army on Vimy Ridge 1914–1917.Barnsley: Pen & Sword.ISBN 978-1-84415-680-1.
Sheldon, J. (2012).The German Army on the Western Front, 1915.Barnsley: Pen & Sword.ISBN 978-1-84884-466-7.
Wynne, G. C. (1976) [1939].If Germany Attacks: The Battle in Depth in the West(Greenwood Press, NY ed.). London: Faber & Faber.ISBN 978-0-8371-5029-1.

External links[edit]

[FOOTNOTEDoughty2005-1] Doughty 2005.

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