Quotulatiousness

August 3, 2018

The obscure, almost-forgotten campaign that ended the First World War

Filed under: Britain, France, Germany, History, Military, USA, WW1 — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 03:00

It’s often called the “Hundred Days”, but even for people who stayed awake in their high school history classes, that’s often taken to refer to the last hurrah of Napoleon between his escape from Elba and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo. The WW1’s Hundred Days began with the Allied victory at the battle of Amiens and ended with the Armistice on 11 November, 1918. On Twitter, Engaging Strategy shared a series of tweets about this campaign and how little is generally remembered about it:

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