100s

[chickenfeet]

 Today is the 100th anniversary of the "Hundred Days".  Actually there are quite a lot of "Hundred Days" but this one refers specifically to the final offensive launched by forces of the British Empire which began at Amiens on August 8th 1918 and concluded with the Armistice 100 days later.  It's arguably the only successful offensive undertaken by the British on the Western Front in the whole war.  In the way of these things the lessons learned from the great battles of 1916 and 1917 were taken to heart here, though sadly promptly forgotten again after the war with consequences in 1940/41.  But lessons get relearnt and Montgomery's plan at Second Alamein is curiously similar to Amiens.