The name Battle of Arras refers to a number of battles which took place near the town of Arras in Artois, France: Siege of Arras (1640), a siege by the French against the Spanish during the Thirty Years' War Battle of Arras (1654), a clash between the French and the Spanish Battle of Arras (1914), a battle during the Race to the Sea in the First World War Battle of Arras (1915), took place on May 9, 1915, during the First World War Battle of Arras (1917), a British Empire offensive during the First World War Battle of Arras (1918), part of the Hundred Days Offensive Battle of Arras (1940), a tank battle during the Battle of France in the Second World War See also Arras (disambiguation)