Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line
| Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line | |||||||||
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German wire at Quéant, 4 October 1918 | |||||||||
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Canada United Kingdom | German Empire | ||||||||
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Henry Horne Arthur Currie | Otto von Below | ||||||||
The Drocourt-Quéant Line ([dʁɔ.kuʁ ke.ɑ̃]; German: Wotan Stellung) was a set of mutually supporting defensive lines constructed by Germany between the French towns of Drocourt and Quéant during World War I. This defensive system was part of the northernmost section of the Hindenburg Line, a vast German defensive system that ran through northeastern France.
It was attacked and captured by Canadian and British troops in the closing months of the war as part of Canada's Hundred Days of successful offensive campaigning that helped end the war.