It lies low on the south side of the Ancre, below Miraumont, and it became a place of misery to German troops after the capture of Beaucourt and Beaumont-Hamel, on the other side of the river-still worse when on Sunday last our men advanced north of Beaucourt, capturing a couple of hundred prisoners and Consolidating on a line of ground dominating Grandcourt, on the north-west.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
It was reported they had carried all their objectives and were Consolidating their defences for the counter-attacks which were sure to come.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The following letter from Sir James Hudson, the English Minister at Turin-"uomo italianissimo," as Cavour called him-is particularly interesting, because, though addressed to Lady John, it reads as though it were also intended for the eyes of the Foreign Secretary, from whom indignation had temporarily concealed the truth that this sacrifice was the only compensation which would have induced Napoleon to look on quietly while the new kingdom of Italy was Consolidating on his frontier.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond