📅 On This Day in Military History

August 11

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⚔️📍 Amiens, France1918

The Hundred Days Offensive — Beginning of the End for Germany

Following the success of the Battle of Amiens (August 8), Allied forces under Haig launched a series of relentless offensives that never gave Germany time to recover. Combined arms tactics using tanks, aircraft, and infantry broke German lines repeatedly.

The Hundred Days Offensive shattered Germany's army and convinced Ludendorff that Germany could not win; it ended with Germany's armistice on November 11.

Outcome

100-day Allied offensive ends WWI