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	Battle of the Last 100 Days
		During the next 2 days, the Germans had been pushed back an additional 24 kilometres, 4 German divisions were "on the run" and 10,000 more prisoners taken by the Canadian forces.
		A week after the Amiens offensive was finished the Canadians were ordered back to the Vimy sector to to begin plans for the attack on the Drocourt-Queant line.
		Within 3 days the Canadians were to come up with a plan of attack through the old British and German positions plus the 5 new German defence lines.
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	Hundred Days Offensive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hundred Days Offensive was the final offensive in World War I by the Allies against the Central Powers on the Western Front from 8 August 1918 to 11 November, 1918.
		The offensive was the final straw for the battered German armies which surrendered and deserted in large numbers.
		Foch now considered the time had arrived for the Allies to return to the offensive and agreed on a proposal by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), to strike on the Somme, east of Amiens and southwest of the 1916 battlefield of the Battle of the Somme.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hundred_Days_Offensive (896 words)

	Hundred Days - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Hundred Days (20 March–28 June 1815) The period between NAPOLEON's return from the island of Elba and the date of the second restoration of LOUIS XVIII.
		Nevertheless, Napoleon took the offensive and forced the Prussians to retreat at Ligny.
		Two days later, on 18 June, Napoleon was defeated at WATERLOO.
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	Canadian Corps Logistics during the last hundred days, August-November 1918. - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nowhere was the modernity of the First World War better illustrated than during the battles of the Hundred Days, which started with the attack at Amiens on 8 August 1918 and finished with the capture of Mons 100 miles away on November 11.
		Canada's Hundred Days, as G.F.G. Stanley dubbed them in his seminal work on Canadian soldiers, would set the mold for Canadian Army combat service support (CSS) doctrine and practices for the remainder of the twentieth century.
		The most profound sustainment lesson grasped by the Canadian Corps during the Hundred Days was that offensive success had to be underwritten by tactical logistics mobility.
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		On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British Army saw the bloodiest day in its history, suffering 57,470 casualties and 19,240 dead.
		The Central Powers launched a crushing offensive on October 26 that was spearheaded by German troops and supported by the Austrians and Hungarians.
		The Bulgarians suffered their only defeat in the war in the battle of Dobro Pole but days after this they decisively defeated the English and the Greeks in the battle of Doiran, which saved the country from enemy occupation.
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	First World War - www.canadiansoldiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		German General Erich Ludendorff's plans (Operation MICHAEL) for a 1918 general offensive along the Western Front were executed in Mar, aimed at dividing the British and French armies in a series of feints and advances and striking a decisive blow before the United States had a chance to deploy significant forces on the Western Front.
		The offensive began on 21 Mar 1918 with an attack against British forces near the rail junction at Amiens.
		The Hundred Days Offensive was the final act of the Allies on the Western Front, covering the period 8 Aug 1918 to 11 Nov 1918.
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	This Day in History 1918: Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The offensive was driven ahead by Australian and U.S. troops, who attacked the heavily fortified town of Bellicourt with tank, aircraft and artillery support.
		After four days of battle, with heavy losses on both sides, the Germans were forced to retreat.
		With Kaiser Wilhelm II pressured by the military into accepting governmental reform and Germany’s ally, Bulgaria, suing for an armistice by the end of September, the Central Powers were in disarray on the battlefield as well as the home front.
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	Western Front - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		The Western Front was fairly fluid in the opening months of the war, during the initial period of German invasion and the "race to the sea" in which the Allies and their enemies each tried to outflank each other to the north.
		The Canadians came to relieve the British on 4 Apr, and during that day and the next subjected the Canadians to a fearsome shelling that actually forced one battalion (the 27th Battalion, CEF) to withdraw.
		Some 5,000 German prisoners were taken, and their General Ludendorf later called it the "fl day of the German Army in the history of this war." The Canadians advanced 5 kilometres more the next day, then 3 more on the 10th.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Western_Front (4416 words)

	Attacks and Offensive
		Whereas an attack usually involved a division (16,000 men), an offensive was much larger and would use at least one corps.
		Before attacks and offensives took place, heavy artillery was used to soften up the enemy trenches.
		At the offensive at the Somme in the summer of 1916 General Douglas Haig ordered an eight-day preliminary bombardment before sending 750,000 men (27 divisions) to attack the German trenches.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWoffensive.htm (2058 words)

	HyperWar: First Offensive: The Marine Campaign For Guadalcanal
		The man destined to lead the 1st Marine Division in America's first ground offensive operation of World War II was born in 1887 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he grew up fascinated by his grandfather's stories of life in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
		The day was coming when America's shipyards and factories would fill the seas with warships of all types, but that day had not arrived in 1942.
		In the day's bitter fighting, Corporal Anthony Casamento, a badly wounded machine gun squad leader in Edson's 1st Battalion, had so distinguished himself that he was recommended for a Navy Cross; many years later, in August 1980, President Jimmy Carter approved the award of the Medal of Honor in its stead.
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	This Day in History 1918: Battle of Epehy
		On this day in 1918, near the French village of Epehy, the British 4
		By early September 1918, Allied forces had effectively countered the major German spring offensive of that year and had reached the furthest forward positions of the Hindenburg Line, considered by many on both sides to be impregnable.
		By the end of the day, the Allies had advanced some three miles, a modest result that nonetheless encouraged Haig and his fellow commanders to proceed with further attacks to capitalize on the emerging German weaknesses.
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	World War I information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The naval guns of the day were the largest guns on the planet, and weighed hundreds of tons apiece.
		The infantry was armed mostly with a bolt action magazine rifle, but the machine gun, with the ability to fire hundreds of rounds per minute, blunted infantry attacks as an offensive weapon; therefore, the British sought a solution and created the tank.
		Their first use proved tanks needed infantry support and massed formations, but within a year the British were fielding tanks by the hundreds and showed their potential during the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 by breaking the Hindenburg Line while capturing 8000 enemy and 100 artillery guns.
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	World War I - Wikipedia Light!
		On October 26, they launched a crushing offensive that resulted in the victory of Caporetto: the Italian army was routed, but after retreating more than 100km, it was able to reorganise and hold at the Battle of the Piave River.
		Dissatisfaction with the Russian government's conduct of the war grew despite the success of the June 1916 Brusilov offensive in eastern Galicia against the Austrians, when Russian success was undermined by the reluctance of other generals to commit their forces in support of the victorious sector commander.
		A final offensive was scheduled for November 11, and was launched at 10:30, a half-hour before the hostilities were to end.
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	WWI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On August 2, Germany occupied Luxembourg, as a preliminary step to the invasion of Belgium and the Schlieffen Plan (which was rapidly going awry, as the Germans had not intended to be at war with a mobilized Russia this quickly).
		In the Australian and New Zealand popular minds, the First World War became known as the nations' “Baptism of Fire”, as it was the first major war in which the newly established countries fought, and it is one of the first cases where Australian troops fought as Australians, not just subjects of the British Crown.
		Indeed, many Canadians refer to their country as a nation “forged from fire,” as Canadians were respected internationally as an independent nation from the conflagrations of war and bravery.
	en.explicatus.org /wiki/WWI (10653 words)

	Fremont's Hundred Days Atlantic Monthly
		The day was cloudy and damp; there was no one to say farewell; and as the train passed through the cold hills, a feeling of gloom seemed to pervade the company.
		The day had been dark, the journey dull, and the people we had seen silent and sullen but here was a welcome, the hearty, generous welcome of sympathizing friends, who saw in their guests the defenders of their homes.
		The roads were very bad, but the day was bright, and the march was a succession of beautiful pictures, of which the long and brilliant line of horsemen winding through the forest was the chief ornament.
	www.civilwarstlouis.com /History2/fremont100pt1.htm (7111 words)

	WWI Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
		Before the offensive even began, Ludendorff made what may have been a fatal mistake by leaving the elite Eighth Army in Russia and sending over only a small portion of the German forces from the east to aid the offensive in the west.
		The initial stages of the offensive were so successful that German Kaiser Wilhelm II declared March 24 a national holiday.
		The Allied counteroffensive, known as the Hundred Days Offensive began on August 8, 1918.
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	World War I
		The same day, yet another ultimatum was delivered to Belgium, requesting free passage for the German army on the way to France.
		However, in the Spring Offensive, the German Army used artillery briefly and infiltrated small groups of infantry at weak points, attacking command and logistics areas and surrounding points of serious resistance.
		Many rebelled and were arrested, refusing to be part of a naval offensive which they believed to be nothing more than a suicide bid.
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	Canada's Hundred Days - Veterans Affairs Canada
		August 8 to November 11, 1918 has come to be known as " The Hundred Days", and in effect for the Canadian Corps it was Canada's Hundred Days, for in this period it was in the vanguard of the successful march to Mons.
		In Ludendorff's words, August 8 was the "fl day of the German army".
		The attack along the whole front was accompanied by the most massive single day bombardment of the war.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/canada/Canada15 (659 words)

	FIRST WORLD WAR ONE THE GREAT WAR WWI
		On October 26, they launched a crushing offensive that resulted in the victory of Caporetto: the Italian army was routed, but after retreating more than 100km, it was able to reorganise and hold at the Battle of the Piave River.
		Dissatisfaction with the Russian government's conduct of the war grew despite the success of the June 1916 Brusilov offensive in eastern Galicia against the Austrians, when Russian success was undermined by the reluctance of other generals to commit their forces in support of the victorious sector commander.
		At 1100 hours that day ("eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"), a ceasefire came into effect and the opposing armies on the Western Front began to withdraw from their positions.
	www.solarnavigator.net /world_war_one.htm (9493 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		At 11:00am on November 11 1918 — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month — a ceasefire came into effect and the opposing armies on the Western Front began to withdraw from their positions.
		The infantry was armed mostly with magazine fed bolt-action rifles, but the machine gun, with the ability to fire hundreds of rounds per minute, blunted infantry attacks as an offensive doctrine.
		Within a year, the British were fielding tanks by the hundreds and showed their potential during the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 by breaking the Hindenburg Line, while combined arms teams captured 8000 enemy soldiers and 100 guns.
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	First One Hundred Days
		In sharp contrast to his predecessor, Bush has made a point of being on time; he jokes with friends and foes alike; and he bestows his own nicknames (Democratic Congressman George Miller is "Big George"; Republican Congressman Fred Upton is "Freddy Boy").
		In the midst of the charm offensive, for example, 42 Democratic senators voted against Bush's nomination of John Ashcroft to be attorney general.
		When it comes to the real fights over controversial policies, Bush's charm offensive may be a forgotten memory.
	college.hmco.com /polisci/resources/first_100_days/articles/mrbush.html (628 words)

	CNN.com - Time reporter: Iraqi resistance getting smarter - Nov. 20, 2003
		CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh on the U.S. military's launch of a new offensive against insurgents.
		People told me if you have a well- organized, well-led resistance force of maybe several hundred or a thousand, they could be inflicting the amount of damage and instigating the amount of chaos we've seen in the last couple of weeks.
		BENNETT: One source, who used to work for the former regime and is now in contact with some of the resistance cell leaders in different parts of the country, has said that some of the cell leaders who used to operate independently have now started to come together on a weekly basis.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/11/17/cnna.bennett (791 words)

	U.S. Military Launches New Iraq Offensive - baltimoresun.com
		HAQLANIYAH, Iraq // The U.S. military launched a major offensive early Tuesday in a cluster of cities in the Euphrates River valley, an operation aimed at insurgents using the area as a safe haven in a region where 20 Marines were killed in August.
		About 2,500 U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors and several hundred Iraqi troops were taking part in the operation, which began three days after about 1,000 service members launched a separate U.S. offensive farther to the west near the Syrian border in the village of Sadah and two nearby towns, Rumana and Karabila.
		Earlier this year, Haqlaniyah, Parwana and Haditha were all searched individually by hundreds of U.S. forces, but Tuesday's offensive was substantially larger than any previous operations by U.S. forces in that entire region of western Iraq in 2005.
	www.baltimoresun.com /sns-ap-iraq-new-offensive,0,4876184.story?coll=bal-iraq-storyutil (514 words)

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		As far as I can tell the only French divisions trained for offensive warfare were the two cavalry (light armored) divisions under General Rene Prioux.
		Their task was to confront and hold off the German advance through Belgium until the balance of the French forces could arrive and set up defensive positions.
		In the event they more than held their own for two days against two Panzer divisions at Gembloux Gap despite having no air support.
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	A Guide to the War in the Pacific: The Pacific Offensive
		Machine gun positions, concrete bunkers and pillboxes, mines, and 8-inch coastal gun emplacements (the guns brought to Betio from Singapore) foretold of formidable Japanese defenses for later fights in the Pacific.
		Subsequent assaults by the flat-bottomed Higgins boats, however, were caught on the offshore reef in less than three feet of water 400 yards from the beachhead.
		As they waded to shore, hundreds were killed and wounded in a vicious crossfire.
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