. "France" . "British Empire" . "7,000 guns, 128 tanks" . "1917-05-09Z"^^ . "4,000 captured" . "118 tanks" . "including 29,000 killed" . "Nivelle Offensive"@en . "The Nivelle Offensive in 1917, was a Franco-British offensive on the Western Front in the First World War. The French part of the offensive was intended to be strategically decisive, by breaking through the German defences on the Aisne within 48 hours, with casualties expected to be around 10,000 men. A preliminary attack was to be made by the French Third Army at St."@en . . . "1.2 million soldiers" . . . "187,000" . "German Empire" . . "German victory" . "Russian Expeditionary Force" . . . .