Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge

The Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge (3 October to 27 October 1918) occurred during World War I, northeast of Reims, in Champagne, France. The US Army's 2nd Infantry Division and the 36th Infantry Division opposed the Imperial German Army's 200th and 213th divisions, along with portions of six additional German divisions.[1] The result of this battle was the expulsion of the Imperial German Army from the Champagne Region.

Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge
Part of the Western Front of World War I
Date3–27 October 1918
Location
Northeast of Reims
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
 United States
 France		  German Empire
Commanders and leaders
John A. Lejeune
William Ruthven Smith
Henri Gouraud		 Crown Prince Wilhelm
Strength
2 US Army divisions Assigned to French Fourth Army divisions
United States Marines (elements)
French 4th Army (elements)		 2 German infantry divisions

Six additional divisions(elements)
Casualties and losses
7,800 men, killed and wounded.
Unknown number captured		 Unknown
Unknown number captured

Notes
  1. Curtis pp. 40-44
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  • , "Forgotten Victory" (Doughboy Center)
  • Field Orders for the battle
  • "George W. Hamilton, USMC: America's Greatest World War I Hero"

References
  • Curtis, Capt. Thomas J. (March 1919). History of the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion, Fourth Brigade, U.S. Marines, Second Division, And Its Participation in the Great War. Neuweid on the Rhine, Germany.

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