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    Anglo-Portuguese relations on the Western Front: the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and the British High Command (Part II)


    Ribeiro De Meneses, Filipe (2017) Anglo-Portuguese relations on the Western Front: the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and the British High Command (Part II). First World War Studies, 8 (2). pp. 189-204. ISSN 1947-5020

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    Abstract

    The winter of 1917–1918 was a difficult time for the men and officers of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps [C.E.P.]. Its two divisions were now fighting side by side in Flanders, but were no longer receiving regular reinforcements from Portugal, where a coup d’état had replaced the committed interventionist leadership of Afonso Costa and Norton de Matos with Sidónio Pais’ ‘New Republic’, which prioritized domestic concerns. Despite this change and an ensuing Anglo-Portuguese agreement to lessen the C.E.P.’s front, allowing only one division to remain in the trenches, the Portuguese corps in its entirety remained in situ until early April 1918 when, in the face of a looming German offensive, it began to be withdrawn. Serious questions remain regarding the timing of this withdrawal and its link to the Battle of the Lys, on 9 April, which saw the Portuguese Second Division wiped out in the course of a single morning’s fighting.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Portuguese Expeditionary Corps; Western Front; command; combat; Battle of the Ly;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History
    Item ID: 12957
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2017.1393346
    Depositing User: Filipe Ribeiro De Meneses
    Date Deposited: 21 May 2020 10:11
    Journal or Publication Title: First World War Studies
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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