Monday, August 13, 2018

Battle Of Amiens: By Jove, the War's Coming To An End


August 8, 2018, Guardian U.K. "By Jove, the war's coming to an end':  Battle of Amiens remembered" Daniel Boffey.

"aerial, ,mechanical and human courage and ingenuity combined with devastating results" and turned the tide of the war, according to England's Prince William.

The four day assault, referred to as the Battle of Amiens, launched at 4:20 a.m. 100 years ago todat.  It was not as big as the Second Battle of the Somme or Passchendale, but was a truly coordinated "Allied attack" and a "great endeavor, of 100,000 British, French, Canadian and U.S. troops that broke the will of the German Army and was a springboard to the final victory at Armistice Day.

This attack included hundreds of tanks.

--Cooter

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