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BATTLE OF SCARPE

The Battle of Scarpe (also known as the fifth battle of Arras) was a Great War battle between British and German forces in August 1918. The British, under General Henry Home, were attempting to prepare the ground for a general advance by driving the Germans out of a subsection of the Hindenburg Line. They attacked along both sides of the Scarpe river, taking several villages and completing the operation with the capture of Bullecourt on the 31st of August. The battle then died down into a series of local skirmishes until the opening of the final battle for Arras on the 2nd of September.
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