The Battle of Cambrai — The Use of the Tank

Abstract

The battle of Cambrai is generally remembered for the employment of tanks en masse for the first time. In reality it was not a tank battle, but the first example of a new style of mechanised ‘combined-arms’ warfare in which all the elements of the army — artillery, infantry, cavalry and tanks — would be synchronised in a new type of attack, foreshadowing the main features of twentieth-century land combat.