Battle of the Sambre (1918)

Battle of the Sambre (1918)
	Part of the Western Front of World War I
	; The scaling of the walls of Le Quesnoy by New Zealand troops; painting by George Edmund Butler
Date	4 November 1918
Location	River Sambre, France
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents
British Empire United Kingdom; Canada; New Zealand; France; United States	German Empire
Strength
17 divisions; 11 divisions; Unknown 37 tanks	17th Army; 2nd Army
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

The Second Battle of the Sambre (4 November 1918) (which included the Second Battle of Guise (French: 2ème Bataille de Guise) and the Battle of Thiérache (French: Bataille de Thiérache) was part of the final European Allied offensives of World War I.

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