{"id":89259,"date":"2024-09-05T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=89259"},"modified":"2024-05-29T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:33:31","slug":"matilda-i-the-little-tank-that-did-tank-chat-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/05\/matilda-i-the-little-tank-that-did-tank-chat-176\/","title":{"rendered":"Matilda I \u2013 The Little Tank That Did | Tank Chat #176"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EiJUahw2mak?si=n6KYFcQ_LF8twko1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished May 24, 2024<\/p>\n<p>In 1940, this small but well armoured tank was pretty much all that stood between the German <em>Blitzkrieg<\/em> and a battered British Army that was retreating to the coast. <\/p>\n<p>Slow, small, and armed only with a machine gun, the A11 Infantry Tank (Matilda I) would achieve great things in its only significant battlefield action \u2013 effectively saving the British Expeditionary Force from annihilation. <\/p>\n<p>At Arras on 21st May 1940, Matilda Is and IIs of 4th and 7th Royal Tank Regiment counterattacked the rapidly advancing 7th <em>Panzer<\/em> Division. In doing so, they successfully halted the German advance and unnerved Hitler so much that he issued an order forbidding further advances &mdash; thus giving the British and French chance to organize the Dunkirk evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, David Willey covers the history of this diminutive and often ridiculed little tank which altered the course of history by saving an entire army. <\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published May 24, 2024 In 1940, this small but well armoured tank was pretty much all that stood between the German Blitzkrieg and a battered British Army that was retreating to the coast. Slow, small, and armed only with a machine gun, the A11 Infantry Tank (Matilda I) would achieve great things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[4,7,5,663,230],"tags":[991,140,1251,859,1298],"class_list":["post-89259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-design","tag-dunkirk","tag-manufacturing","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ndF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89259","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=89259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89260,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89259\/revisions\/89260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}