Individual #battle_of_the_Ardennes_Bulge__Battle_of_the_Bulge__Ardennes_counteroffensive battle during World War II; in December 1945 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest that caught the Allies by surprise
instance of: #pitched_battle
part of: #World_War_II__World_War___Second_World_War a war between the Allies (Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Canada China Colombia Costa-Rico Cuba Czechoslovakia Dominican-Republic El-Salvador Ethiopia Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Iran Iraq Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New-Zealand Nicaragua Norway Panama Philippines Poland South-Africa United-Kingdom US USSR Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania Bulgaria Finland Germany Hungary Italy Japan Rumania Slovakia Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
part of: #Ardennes a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World Wars I and II
part of: #Champagne-Ardenne__Champagne a region of northeastern France
part of: #France__French_Republic a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
part of: #Europe the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
part of: #Eurasia the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
part of: #eastern_hemisphere__easternhemisphere__orient the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
part of: #northern_hemisphere the hemisphere north of the equator
part of: pm#Mediterranean_region
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