{"id":44368,"date":"2018-08-03T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44368"},"modified":"2018-08-02T09:40:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T13:40:22","slug":"the-obscure-almost-forgotten-campaign-that-ended-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/03\/the-obscure-almost-forgotten-campaign-that-ended-the-first-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The obscure, almost-forgotten campaign that ended the First World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s often called the &#8220;Hundred Days&#8221;, but even for people who stayed awake in their high school history classes, that&#8217;s often taken to refer to the last hurrah of Napoleon between his escape from Elba and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo. The WW1&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<div id=\"tttt_1024556029466632192\" data-option=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1024556029466632192.html\">Thread by @EngageStrategy1: &#8220;Outside small military history circles, no. Of course it doesn&#8217;t appear in WW1 remembrance, because clear victory in the field in the most s [\u2026]&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/embed\/1024556029466632192.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s often called the &#8220;Hundred Days&#8221;, but even for people who stayed awake in their high school history classes, that&#8217;s often taken to refer to the last hurrah of Napoleon between his escape from Elba and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo. The WW1&#8217;s Hundred Days began with the Allied victory at the battle of Amiens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1117,1118,7,5,13,246],"tags":[31,1219],"class_list":["post-44368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-ww1","tag-army","tag-hundreddays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bxC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44369,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44368\/revisions\/44369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}