The Need for Organisational Resilience - Chapter 3

In the centre, Van Kleist’s armoured group threw back the forward deployed 5th Light

Cavalry Division and the 1st French Cavalry Brigade. They proceeded towards the river

Semois and crossed it, facing desperate, piecemeal resistance by Belgian Chasseurs

Ardennais and French forces. The German forces lined up alongside the Meuse between

Monthermé and Sedan, and their seven armoured divisions prepared to hurl themselves

across it, just at the junction between Corap’s Ninth and Huntziger’s Second Army (see Map

3.1).

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