Second Battle of The Somme (1918)

Second Battle Of The Somme (1918)

Hundred Days Offensive
  • Amiens
  • 2nd Somme
  • Arras
  • Scarpe 1918
  • Mont St. Quentin
  • Havrincourt
  • St.-Mihiel
  • Épehy
  • Canal du Nord
  • St. Quentin Canal
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • 5th Ypres
  • Beaurevoir
  • 2nd Cambrai
  • Courtrai
  • Selle
  • Valenciennes
  • Sambre

During the First World War, the Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought on the Western Front from the end of the summer, in the basin of the Somme River. It was part of a series of successful counter-offensives in response to the German Spring Offensive, after a pause for redeployment and supply.

The most significant feature of the 1918 Somme battles was that with the first Battle of the Somme of 1918 having halted what had begun as an overwhelming German offensive, the second formed the central part of the Allies' advance to the Armistice of 11 November.

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