Blanc Mont (Meuse-Argonne-Champagne)

The Blanc Mont operation is classed by the Americans as a part of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, but in a broader sense it was a part of the general offensive that extended along the entire front of the Allied Armies between Switzerland and the English Channel. All of the armies were engated in a converging attack -- the British toward Cambrai, the French east and west of Rheims toward the Aisne, and the Americans toward Sedan and Mezieres. The result of these operations, if successful, would be to clear the Germans from France and Belgium, prevent the withdrawal of a large part of them into Germany, and also prevent the removal of the supplies accumulated in Belgium. This would be effected by the cutting of the Carignan-Sedan Mezieres railway system, and the cutting or threatening of the northern system through Liege.