And the Saint-Chamond tanks were into the LEFEBVRE group. The Schneider tanks were divided into two groups: the BOSSUT group and the CHAUBES group. On 16 April 1917, 132 tanks stationed just north of Berry-au-Bac took part in an offensive. THE BEGINNING OF TANKS IN COMBATĪ hundred years ago, the French army used tanks in battle for the very first time.
«Gentlemen, the victory in this war will belong to whichever of the two belligerents is the first to succeed in placing a 75-mm gun on a vehicle able to be driven on all-terrain». On 22 August 1914, General Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne declared: Last of their kind, they are still here to tell the fateful tales of the men who fought in this horrific battle called «The Great War». These century-old war machines have now become monuments to the events of their time.
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