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Nivelle had been briefed to openly criticise Haig during the conference for his alleged failure to attack in support of French offensives. This gave Lloyd George an opening to request that Nivelle draw up proposals, for presentation later that evening, to improve the situation.
Even those commanders who were drawn to his argument looked with suspicion on his firmly-stated belief that his plan could end the war in just two days of fighting, but Nivelle won over British Prime Minister Lloyd George, and that support ensured that British forces would be available to carry out his plan.
The Nivelle offensive (16 April – 9 May 1917) was a Franco-British operation on the Western Front in the First World War which was named after General Robert Nivelle, the commander-in-chief of the French metropolitan armies, who led the offensive.
In December 1916 in Britain the dynamic Welsh ‘wizard’, Lloyd George, supplanted Asquith as Prime Minister. In France Joffre was replaced by the rising star of the French high command, Verdun commander Robert Nivelle, who had a new plan for breaking the western front stalemate.
- Matthew Hughes, William J. Philpott
- 2005
Nivelle’s plan involved a major assault by French forces on the Aisle region, which would be supported by a secondary attack by British troops at Arras, Vimy Ridge and on the Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt.
Kingsley Martin wrote of the third volume of the War Memoirs that in ‘dealing with the ghastly Nivelle offensive one feels that Mr Lloyd George’s account may have been unconsciously influenced by the fact that he himself was an enthusiastic supporter of...
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Apr 17, 2015 · Nivelle was sacked as Commander-in-Chief on May 15th and replaced by Philippe Pétain. French casualties at the Battle of Verdun were greater than those at the Second Aisne. So why was Nivelle replaced – especially as 20,000 Germans had been captured along with 147 German artillery guns?
