Editing Battle of Passchendaele (section)

====Verdun====

{{main|Battle of Verdun#20–26 August 1917|l1=Verdun, August 1917}}

Petain had committed the French Second Army to an attack at Verdun in mid-July, in support of the Flanders offensive. The attack was delayed, partly due to mutinies in the French army after the failure of the [[Nivelle Offensive]] and because of a German attack at Verdun from 28 to 29 June, which captured some of the French jumping-off points. A French counter-attack on 17 July re-captured the ground, the Germans regained it on 1 August, then took ground on the east bank on 16 August.{{sfn|Doughty|2005|pp=380–383}} The French attacked on 20 August and by 9 September had taken {{nowrap|10,000 prisoners.}} Sporadic fighting continued into October, adding to the German difficulties on the Western Front and elsewhere. Ludendorff wrote

{{blockquote|On the left bank, close to the Meuse, one division had failed&nbsp;... and yet both here and in Flanders everything possible had been done to avoid failure&nbsp;... The French army was once more capable of the offensive. It had quickly overcome its depression.|Ludendorff: ''Memoirs''{{sfn|Terraine|1977|p=235}}}}

No German counter-attack was possible because the local {{lang|de|Eingreif}} divisions had been transferred to Flanders.{{sfn|Edmonds|1991|p=230}}