On September 26, the day Combles was taken, an attack was made against
this formidable plateau. Mouquet Farm and Zollern Redoubt fell, and on
the 27th, Thiepval was captured _(see p. 48)_.
The British carried the trenches connecting the Schwaben and Stuff
Redoubts, but the enemy still clung to the northern slopes of the
plateau which descends towards the Ancre.