The Battle of
Amiens began on 8 August 1918, and was the opening phase of the Allied offensive
later known as the Hundred Days Offensive which ultimately led to the end of the
First World War.
By the end of August 8, Erich Ludendorff,
the German commander in chief, dubbed this day as "the black day of the
German army" . The Allies had
penetrated the German lines around the Somme with a gap 15 miles long. Of the
27, 000 German casualties on August 8, an unprecedented proportion—12,000—had
surrendered to the enemy. Though the Allies at Amiens failed to continue their
success in the days following August 8, the damage had been done. "We have
reached the limits of our capacity," Kaiser Wilhelm II told Ludendorff on
that "black day." "The war must be ended”.
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