The plan called for reducing the Saint-Mihiel salient (which would later see combat in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel) and freeing the railway lines that ran through Amiens from German shellfire. Planįoch disclosed his plan on 23 July, following the allied victory at the Battle of Soissons. Foch now tried to move the Allies back onto the offensive. The Germans, recognising their untenable position, withdrew from the Marne to the north. The Allied general, General Ferdinand Foch, ordered a counteroffensive which led to victory at the Second Battle of the Marne, following which he was promoted to Marshal of France.
Subsequent German offensives- Operation Georgette (9–11 April), Operation Blücher-Yorck (27 May), Operation Gneisenau (9 June) and Operation Marne-Rheims (15–17 July)-all made advances elsewhere on the Western Front, but failed to achieve a decisive breakthrough.īy the end of the Marne-Rheims offensive, the German manpower advantage had been spent and their supplies and troops were exhausted. Amiens was one of the first major battles involving armoured warfare. This led Erich Ludendorff to later describe the first day of the battle as " the black day of the German Army". The battle is also notable for its effects on both sides' morale and the large number of surrendering German forces. Allied forces advanced over 11 kilometres (7 mi) on the first day, one of the greatest advances of the war, with Gen Henry Rawlinson's British Fourth Army (with 9 of its 19 divisions supplied by the fast moving Australian Corps of Lt Gen John Monash and Canadian Corps of Lt Gen Arthur Currie) playing the decisive role. The Battle of Amiens, also known as the Third Battle of Picardy ( French: 3ème Bataille de Picardie), was the opening phase of the Allied offensive which began on 8 August 1918, later known as the Hundred Days Offensive, that ultimately led to the end of the First World War.
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