Taiping army had been raised three times in large scale western offensives.

At the heart of French embarrassment at remembering World War II is the fact that, while France followed Britain's example by declaring war on Germany after Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939, French defenses crumbled ignominiously in face of Germany's western offensive of spring 1940.

The first date fixed for the western offensive is November .7.

Finally, in 1790, President Washington and Secretary of War Henry Knox ordered Brigadier General Josiah Harmar to launch a major western offensive into the Shawnee and Miami Indian country.

He also reported on the German western offensive in 1940.

On the day of the western offensive the unit had just a single He 111 and Ju 88.

These armies would drive west through the Ardennes in a repeat of the great western offensive of 1940, splitting the allied armies.

This was in itself, however, of little significance in an atmosphere impregnated with tension, and anxiety that the western offensive could not conceivably go as smoothly as the Polish and Scandinavian campaigns.