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100 Days Offensive
Context
The Hundred Days Offensive is the name given to a series of battles that made
up the endgame of the Great War. During these conflicts the German front lines
were pushed back kilometres, erasing the gains the Central Powers had made in
the previous years of war. The Offensive also set the stage for Germany's retreat
and final surrender in November, 1918.
The French called the Hundred Days Offensive "Les cent jours du Canada" (Canada's
Hundred Days), because of the key role the Canadian Corps played in the series
of offensives on the Somme, Canal du Nord, Cambrai and Mons.
Prior to the Hundred Days Offensive, the Germans had been on the attack along
the Western Front, starting with Operation Michael in March. By July, however,
the Central Powers were exhausted, overextended, preoccupied with new territory
claimed when Russia stepped out of the war and
open to attack. |
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Tanks
advancing, prisoners bring in wounded
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Battle or Amiens was the first Allied attack of the One Hundred Days Offensive.
The assault made heavy use of tanks and was the first successful push back against
the Central Powers Spring Offensive. |
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