Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan asarar da aka yi a lokacin yakin Lys a watan Afrilu 1918 an tura rundunar zuwa kudu zuwa wani yanki mai zaman kansa don sake gyarawa. Wannan ɓangaren ya kasance maƙasudin rashin sa'a na hare-haren Jamus na gaba, na uku na Aisne
a watan Mayu-Yuni 1918, yana haifar da ƙarin hasara ga IX Corps. Janar Duchêne, kwamandan Sojoji na shida na Faransa, ya tura rundunar IX (rukunin biyar) da nisa a gaba, a kan Chemin des Dames wanda aka samu a irin wannan farashi a karo na biyu na Aisne a shekarar da ta gabata. (Babban Kwamandan Faransa Petain da Kwamandan Rundunar Sojoji na Faransa Franchet d'Esperey sun fi so a yi amfani da ridge a hankali kuma babban tsaro ya zama wani yanki na yaƙi tsakanin shi da Kogin Aisne).