The Great War: Difference between revisions

 

Things did not go according to plan, and the French made a rapid push into the Netherlands capturing Antwerp by the end of September. Forward-placed Dutch units bled the French attackers dry providing significant resistance, and preventing the French army from moving north. Instrumental to the defence was Dutch Louw Verduijn who was vehemently anti-French, and a veteran of the Corean expedition and many other wars. As December came closer and closer the war came to a stalemate, with British reinforcements, Dutch firepower and heavy resistance the Dutch were able to force the French to halt their advance. In the Rhineland, the Australians were able to capture Ertfurt and Goettingen but were forced to retreat, after a series of battles in the south and heavy fighting in the mountains. Key to this was the Battle of Alsfield where a Rhenish, Dutch, Anglo force (8th army) was able to push the Austrians back.

 

==== British Invasion of Tripolitania (February 1938) ====

 

== Invasion of French ==

 

 

== Conclusion of the War ==