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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 . 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 is also notable for its effects on both sides' morale and the large number of  surrendering   German  forces. This led  Erich Ludendorff  to describe the first day of the battle as "the black day of the German Army". Amiens was one of ...

The  Third Battle of Ypres  ( German :  Dritte Flandernschlacht ;  French :  Troisième Bataille des Flandres  and  Dutch :  Derde Slag om Vlaanderen ), also known as the  Battle of Passchendaele  ( / ˈ p æ ʃ ən d eɪ l / ), was a campaign of the  First World War , fought by the  Allies  against the  German Empire . [a]  The battle took place on the  Western Front , from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the  Belgian  city of  Ypres  in  West Flanders , as part of a strategy decided by the Allies at conferences in November 1916 and May 1917.  Passchendaele  lies on the last ridge east of Ypres, 5 mi (8.0 km) from Roulers (now  Roeselare ) junction of the  Bruges  (Brugge) to  Kortrijk  railway. The station at Roulers was on the main supply route of the German  4th Army . Once Passchendaele Ridge had bee...