Battle of Aubers Ridge
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The Battle of <entity_4> (<entity_1>) was a <entity_3> offensive on the Western Front on <entity_2> during the First World War. The <entity_5> was part of the <entity_3> contribution to the <entity_0>, a Franco-<entity_3> offensive intended to exploit the German diversion of troops to the Eastern Front. The <entity_5> was the initial <entity_3> component of the combined Anglo-French offensive known as the <entity_0>. The French commander-in-chief, Joseph Joffre, had enquired of Sir John French, commander of the <entity_3> Expeditionary Force, if <entity_3> units could support a French offensive into the Douai Plain around late April or early <entity_2>. In the aftermath of the <entity_4> Ridge failure, the war correspondent of The Times, Colonel Charles à Court Repington, sent a telegram to his newspaper highlighting the lack of high-explosive shells, using information supplied by Sir John French; The Times headline on 14 <entity_2> was: "Need for shells: <entity_3> attacks checked: Limited supply the cause: A Lesson From <entity_6>". The official historians of the Reichsarchiv recorded c. 102,500 French casualties from <entity_2> to 18 June, 32,000 <entity_3> casualties and 73,072 German casualties for the operations of the <entity_0>.
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