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Sailly-le-Sec (French pronunciation: [sajiləsɛk] ; Picard : Sailly-Sé) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
The commune is situated some 13 miles (21 km) east of Amiens, by the banks of the river Somme, on the D233 road.
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
---|---|---|
1968 | 223 | — |
1975 | 214 | −0.59% |
1982 | 198 | −1.10% |
1990 | 268 | +3.86% |
1999 | 266 | −0.08% |
2007 | 365 | +4.03% |
2012 | 343 | −1.24% |
2017 | 352 | +0.52% |
Source: INSEE [3] |
21 April 1918 - Manfred Von Richthofen, The Red Baron, was finally shot down here.
On the night of August 8–9, 1918, as three Battalions of Doughboys from the 33rd U.S. Infantry Division were joining the Allied offensive during the Battle of Amiens, American war poet Lieut. John Allan Wyeth and Lieut. Thomas J. Cochrane were assigned to deliver sealed orders from Division HQ at Molliens-au-Bois to the Field Headquarters of all three Battalions engaged in the attack. The location of each Battalion was unknown, but they were believed to be along the northern bank of the Somme River, near the village of Sailly-le-Sec. Wyeth would later describe the mission in detail in his six interlinked Chipilly Ridge sonnets . [4]
The Battle of Amiens, also known as the Third Battle of Picardy, was the opening phase of the Allied offensive which began on 8 August 1918, later known as the Hundred Days Offensive, that ultimately led to the end of the First World War. Allied forces advanced over 11 kilometres (7 mi) on the first day, one of the greatest advances of the war, with Gen Henry Rawlinson's British Fourth Army and Gen Marie Eugène Debeney's French First Army playing the decisive role. The battle is also notable for its effects on both sides' morale and the large number of surrendering German forces. This led Erich Ludendorff to later describe the first day of the battle as "the black day of the German Army". Amiens was one of the first major battles involving armoured warfare.
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